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Find free upskilling and reskilling opportunities through the fully funded Skill Up programme.

A list of training methods that may be helpful to your business and boost the skills of your staff.

How to put staff training into practice once you have identified priority areas for your employees and your business.

How to identify a gap between employee knowledge and skills and training requirements using the training needs analysis technique.

Understand the importance of staff training and how employers can identify training needs that will benefit their staff and business as a whole.

Find out the many benefits staff training and skills development can bring to your workers and business.

Why you should develop a workplace policy to cover disruptive events like adverse weather, and what to include in your policy.

Overpayment of sick pay and how to deal with dismissals for long-term sickness absence.

What occupational sick pay schemes must offer.

Employer forms for statutory sick pay including self-certification forms and keeping records of sickness absence.

Work out how much statutory sick pay to pay employees who qualify for it.

How to define when you start and stop payment of statutory sick pay.

How eligibility for SSP depends on an employee's average weekly earnings during a specified period.

Employers' responsibilities to pay statutory sick pay to eligible employees, and where to get further information.

The basic rules governing statutory sick pay and what employers need to do when paying it.

How to create staff policies and communicate them effectively to your staff.

Issues to consider in intimate personal or family relationships in the workplace.

Setting the right pay rates for your employees and establishing policies around rewards and benefits.

Implement training policies and appraisal systems to encourage and develop the skills of your employees.

How to set up anti-bribery policies, and when your business may require them.

Policies that should help to protect your physical property, intellectual property, branding, reputation, and image.

The legal requirement to have written workplace disciplinary and grievance policies.

Legal obligations and best practices when writing health and safety policies.

How promoting equality and diversity policies can benefit your business and create an open, communicative workplace.

Policies covering leave and absence, working hours, and overtime.