{"id":47972,"date":"2014-09-25T11:56:33","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T11:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=7e566ac7adc8b47f170d322cc51c1433"},"modified":"2014-09-25T11:56:33","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T11:56:33","slug":"news-story-crime-news-cpd-training-events-for-providers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=47972","title":{"rendered":"News story: Crime news: CPD training events for providers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Free training events for crime providers are being run by the Public Defender Service (PDS) Advocacy Unit in a number of cities during October 2014.<\/p>\n<p>All of the events are being held from 5.30pm to 7.30pm and are Continuous Professional Development (CPD) accredited.<\/p>\n<p>There are 2 CPD points for each session. The aim is to build on the success of recent PDS events in London, Reading, Cardiff and Bristol.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"diary-of-training-events\">Diary of training events<\/h3>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Topic<\/td>\n<td>Location(s) and date in 2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Historic sex cases: sentencing and trial sentencing<\/td>\n<td>Birmingham 1 October and Manchester 7 October<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Vulnerable defendants: the identification of vulnerabilities, intermediaries and the law<\/td>\n<td>Nottingham 1 October and Leeds 15 October<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Joint enterprise: the liability of the parasitic accessory<\/td>\n<td>Liverpool 8 October<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Police stations: updates on confessions, hearsay, privilege and identification for police station representatives<\/td>\n<td>Newcastle 14 October and Manchester 16 October<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Section 28: pre-recorded cross-examination of vulnerable witnesses-procedure and learning points arising from the pilots<\/td>\n<td>London 22 October<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Owing to popular demand for events in London, the PDS will be holding more sessions in the capital. Details of these sessions will be available in the near future.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"booking-your-place\">Booking your place<\/h3>\n<p>If you would like to attend one or more of these events, please click on the link below to book a place. You will then receive email confirmation which will include further details about the event.<\/p>\n<p>If any events are oversubscribed, this will be confirmed to you at the earliest opportunity. <\/p>\n<h3 id=\"about-us\">About us<\/h3>\n<p>The PDS was recently expanded to include the PDS Advocacy Unit. The Advocacy Unit specialises in serious and complex Crown Court cases and offers criminal advocacy services in a broad range of cases. <\/p>\n<p>You can find out more on the PDS website \u2013 see below.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/o\/advocacy-unit-public-defender-service-7101550295\">Book a place<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Email: <a href=\"mailto:pdsclerks@legalaid.gsi.gov.uk\">PDS<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/publicdefenderservice.org.uk\/\">PDS website<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Telephone: 0203 545 8924<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spaces available in London, Birmingham, Nottingham, Manchester, Liverpool and Newcastle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47972"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}