Acas webinars

Our free-to-attend webinars are a great way to keep up to date with important aspects of employment law and employment relations.

The events are interactive and feature Acas experts who will be on hand to answer any questions you have.

Our webinars often fill up quickly, so we advise that delegates register early to avoid disappointment.

Upcoming webinars you can register onto

Managing a Fair Disciplinary Process

This webinar will cover:

  • How an informal approach may be useful
  • Conducting investigations
  • The companion role to someone in a disciplinary or investigation hearing
  • Disciplinary hearings
  • Appeals against the original outcome
  • Further support available.

Register for upcoming events:


NHS Employers & Acas Joint webinar: Top Tips for Managing Investigations

Acas will share our expertise and experience of managing workplace investigations, condensed into ten top tips, including procedures, who makes the decisions, things to consider and roles required. We will hear from NHS experts on what real life trusts are doing and you will have the chance to ask questions on what has worked.

Register for this upcoming event:


Winter Webinar

This one off unique webinar will cover:

  • Situations involving adverse weather
  • Handling leave requests
  • Increased sickness absence
  • Handling situations around Christmas parties
  • Further support available

Register for this upcoming event:

Meet the Acas webinar team

Claire Berkley - Senior Business Manager - Webinar Manager

Claire has worked at Acas for six years, she started her career on the Acas helpline before moving to an operational support role and recently joined the training branch of Acas. Responsible for the webinar team Claire oversees all webinar work and seeks to listen to the needs of Acas customers (both internal and external) to develop the programme.

Anthony Bainbridge - Helpline Manager - Webinar Presenter

Anthony started his career on the Acas helpline and now manages a team of expert advisers as well as presenting our webinars.

Julie Docherty - Guidance Adviser - Webinar Organiser

Julie has undertaken a number of roles including individual conciliator and mediator before joining the training team. Julie develops and writes external training courses for our trainers to deliver to our customers sharing her expertise. Julie is a webinar organiser who takes part in sessions and makes sure everything behind the scenes run smoothly.

Amy Hawkes - Guidance Adviser - Webinar organiser

Amy joined Acas as part of the Early Conciliation team and has recently joined the training team. Amy now develops and writes external training courses for trainers to deliver to customers, sharing best practice and updates within employment law. She will also be presenting the webinars.

Gemma Evans - Guidance Adviser - Webinar organiser

Gemma has recently joined the training team before joining the team Gemma provided advice and training to businesses in the South West. Gemma will now develop and write external training courses for trainers to deliver to customers. Gemma will also present our webinars.

Laura Ryan - Helpline Manager - Webinar Presenter

Laura started her career on the Acas helpline and now manages a team of expert advisers as well as presenting our webinars.

Sue Terry - Guidance Adviser - Webinar Administrator

Sue has undertaken a number of roles within Acas and currently works on developing our e-learning modules, which are a free online training resource covering a variety of employment relations topics - for more information visit Acas Learning OnLine.

Sue works behind the scenes on the webinars ensuring we have staff to answer your questions, webinars are scheduled and are promoted ahead of the day.

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If you have any questions about Acas webinars the team can be contacted at acaswebinar@Acas.org.uk.

For further information on Acas training please visit Acas Training.