Helping Shape Your Future

Since 1986

Helping Shape Your Future

Since 1986

Focus on Special Educational Needs (SEN)

‘Special educational needs’ is a legal definition and refers to learners with learning problems or disabilities that make it harder for them to learn than most learners the same age.

Digital Skills (GDPR and Cyber Security)

Digital skills in the workplace can include original content creation, e-commerce, network and information security, UX/UI design, digital marketing, social media marketing, and data analytics. Advanced digital skills range from data visualization and basic programming skills to data engineering.

Health & Safety

Health and safety is an important consideration for education staff. You and your provider have a legal responsibility to protect learners from harm, including risks posed by health and safety.

Exploring Maths: Averages

The aim of this session is to enable learners to use statistical methods to investigate situations

Exploring: Career Information, Advice and Guidance

CEIAG (Careers Education, Information, Advice and Guidance) is designed to prepare students for life in modern Britain by providing the knowledge, understanding, confidence and skills that they need to make informed choices and plans for their future learning and career.

Employment rights & responsibilities

The three basic rights of workers include rights concerning pay, hours and discrimination. Workers are entitled to these rights through the law and may declare their employer if they do not respect these rights

Healthy Living & Stress Awareness

“Healthy living” to most people means both physical and mental health are in balance or functioning well together in a person. In many instances, physical and mental health are closely linked, so that a change (good or bad) in one directly affects the other.

Exploring Maths: Simple budgeting

The aim of this session is to enable you to understand simple budgeting to enable you to identify ways of saving money and increase awareness of budgeting.

Exploring Maths: BIDMAS

The aim of this session is to enable you to understand the order of operations of mathematical calculations and what BIDMAS stands for.

Marriage and Civil Partnerships

Marriage or Civil Partnership – What is the difference? Do you have to divorce from a civil partnership? What are your maternity & paternity rights? These and other questions answered.

Fundamental British Values

Fundamental British Values underpin what it is to be a citizen in a modern and diverse Great Britain valuing our community and celebrating diversity of the UK.

Focus on Special Educational Needs (SEN)

The proportion of learners with a statement of SEN/ Education, Health and Care (EHC) plan increased to 4.0% in 2022, continuing a trend of increases since 2017.

Level 3 Diplomas

Carers holding their level 3 certificates

Well done to Lorna McCartan (Professional Carer) and Rebecca Griffiths (Care Coordinator) for completing their Level 3 Diplomas with NWCS.

Digital skills

Digital Skils enable people to create and share digital content, communicate and collaborate, and solve problems for effective and creative self-fulfilment in life, learning, work, and social activities.’

Focus on Gun Crime

Is the recent spate of fatal shootings in Merseyside and London a statistical blip, or the end of a period of success in the fight against gun crime?

What is Knife Crime?

Utility knife in a stabbing motion

Knife crime in Merseyside is at its highest level in 10 years, with more than 900 serious incidents reported last year.

Lucy Jackson

Lucy Jackson

Achieved Early years practitioner Level 2 apprenticeship with NWCS and is now starting her Level 3 Early years educator apprenticeship.

Daniel Hinnigan

Photo of Shehzad Siddiq

Daniel Hinnigan Teaching Assistant Level 3 I decided to do an apprenticeship because I wanted to work in Education and it meant that I could get experience and learn on the job and get paid. Daniel’s experience of NWCST I enrolled with Northwest Community Services Training and started work in Palmerston school for secondary aged […]

Extremism and Radicalisation

Supporting the prevent agenda against radicalisation and extremism has been set as a priority area forIndependent Learning Providers like North West Community Services Training Ltd.

Early Years Lead Practitioner Childcare (Level 5)

Class of schoolchildren

This occupation is found in a range of settings which can include day nurseries, playgroups, nursery schools, pre-schools, kindergartens, primary schools, hospitals, social care settings, out of school environments and local authority provision. The broad purpose of the occupation is to be a proactive and influential practitioner, working directly with children, skilfully leading day to day practice at an operational level.