governance – ADCOSS http://www.adcoss.org.nz Auckland District Council of Social Services Wed, 08 Mar 2017 03:21:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.4 Health and Safety at Work Act http://www.adcoss.org.nz/health-and-safety-at-work-act/ Sun, 29 May 2016 22:42:55 +0000 http://w2mhosting.net/adcoss/?p=1279 The new Health and Safety at Work Act came into force on 4 April. The Southland Community Law Centre has developed a series of useful templates in response to the changes in order to assist NGOs.

These templates include a Health and Safety Policy, Governance Health and Safety Policy, Hazard Register and Hazard Notification. The templates are available to the community sector and may be downloaded from Community Networks Aotearoa website http://communitynetworksaotearoa.org.nz/resources/

]]> Governance Essentials for Volunteers http://www.adcoss.org.nz/governance-essentials-for-volunteers/ Thu, 10 Mar 2016 20:28:53 +0000 http://w2mhosting.net/adcoss/?p=1119 Governance Essentials for Board and Committee Members is an on-line governance training course developed by Governance Strategies and Xperts for people in governance positions to understand the key aspects of the role. Real-world learning is spread across four weeks (up to 3 hours per week) with interesting weekly research and reflection assignments.

Governance Essentials for Board / Committee Members is a best practice professional development  course offering individual participants the flexibility of 24 hour access to training with the convenience of logging in from anywhere at any time and the opportunity to join people in similar roles in an online forum.

Alternatively national organisations may wish to take a whole of organisation and in-house approach to governance training.  Make contact to discuss tailoring the course to meet specific organisational requirements and to organise dates suitable for your members only. National organisations reap the benefits when regional board and committee members up skill!

Four courses are scheduled in 2016, the first of which begins the week of the 21st March 2016. Full enrolment for individual registrations is $299 but there are discounts available; access a special discounted fee by enrolling 3 or more people from the one organisation.

Are you interested?
Go to the course website www.govern.nz to learn more or register.
To discuss your requirements and obtain access to the early bird or organisation discount rates contact  Gail Munro, ph 0273408186 or email [email protected]  or Trevor Crozier, ph 04 9020160 or email [email protected].

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