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300euros for TCI course!!??!! 'Social Care'.

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  • 30-06-2011 5:34pm
    #1
    Starville
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16 ✭


    CPL a healthcare recruitment agency want me to pay 300 euros for a TCI (Therapeutic Crisis Intervention) course before they can find me work yet they cannot guarantee work!
    I am a Social Care Worker out of work and think I have to find the funds for this course (which justs last 1 year, normally it is 6mos) in order to get work.
    Fas will not fund course as it is not an accredited course!

    Anyone know of anyone else providing this course for cheaper? As having no luck on internet


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    Needler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 753 ✭✭✭Needler


    Jaysus I'd cut their throat. I'd say they're just signing up people hoping they'll do that course

    Chancers I'd say. Draining the last few cents from unemployed people, hardly ethical business


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    murphym7
    Registered Users Posts: 2,035 ✭✭✭murphym7


    Needler wrote: »
    Jaysus I'd cut their throat. I'd say they're just signing up people hoping they'll do that course

    Chancers I'd say. Draining the last few cents from unemployed people, hardly ethical business

    A bit dramatic there bud, how sure are you that CPL are running the course themselves and are making a profit from the running of the course. Maybe they want to have their candidates have all the certs their clients need, in order of course to make money from the candidate's placement.


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    Starville
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16 ✭Starville


    I am really in two minds whether to do or not;
    - either pay 300 to do course with hope of finding work
    or
    - don't pay and remain unemployed.

    It's just strange as it is normally your employer that provides this training when you gain employment.


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    run_Forrest_run
    Registered Users Posts: 6,430 ✭✭✭run_Forrest_run


    hard to accept that the crooks in Fás can still make decisions on courses and their credibility, bunch of thieving crooked cowboys they are, and I won't apologise for that.


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    akamossy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭akamossy


    I am a Social Care Worker too and as far as I know that is just what it costs all across the board for this course. In fairness it will be invaluable experience and look amazing on your CV.


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    Ian Mac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 55 ✭✭Ian Mac


    I'd go for it if I was you , and if you're unemployed contact your CWO or local job centre to see if they can help in anyway with some bit of funding.

    Best of luck with it.


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    yaylward
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭yaylward


    Hi Starville,

    Just to let you know that TTM charged me for manual handling course (ok only €75) but I am also signed up with CPL who has also said that they will charge me of TCI course.

    Heading into my final year of a Ba(hons) in Applied Social Studies at the WIT. After 2 years of volunteering, most of it in the US with women coming out of prison , I decided to leave my Central bank job for a totally new direction - social care. I have a MBS from Smurfit and PG in stats from TCD.

    I suppose I have been always on the periphery of it given that I came from a 'fostering' family and have always volunteered in various organisations.

    I've just been on activelink and there seems to be a good few jobs - from Focus, Respond and Crosscare - seriously is the job situation that bad ?


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