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Acas offers training courses, events and tailored support on a wide range of employment topics, aimed primarily at employers and others who need to strengthen workplace compliance and management practice. The site presents this as one of its core services alongside free advice, templates and dispute resolution. Specific course schedules, formats and prices are not set out in the available page content, so you need to check the Acas website directly for current arrangements.
Who the training is for
The Acas homepage describes the organisation as the workplace expert for England, Wales and Scotland, providing free and impartial advice for employers and employees, plus training and help to resolve disputes. Within that mix, the training and tailored support strand is framed around employment topics — the practical ground employers and managers need to cover to stay compliant and handle people issues well.
If you are an employer, HR professional or manager responsible for workplace rules and practice, this is the part of Acas's offer most relevant to you. Employees looking for general rights advice are pointed instead to the free advice service.
What is covered
The site groups Acas help into four areas, and training sits alongside them:
| Service | What the site says it provides |
|---|---|
| Advice | Free advice on employment rights, rules and best practice |
| Templates | Free letters, forms and policy documents to adapt |
| Dispute resolution | Help reaching a legal agreement without an employment tribunal, or resolving a dispute |
| Training | Courses, events and tailored support on a wide range of employment topics |
The phrase "wide range of employment topics" is as specific as the available content gets. The site does not list individual course titles, durations or delivery methods on the page captured, so treat any topic list you see elsewhere as needing verification against Acas's own pages.
How to find current courses and support
Because the homepage only signals that training exists rather than detailing it, the practical route is:
- Go to acas.org.uk and open the training section from the main navigation.
- Look for the distinction between open courses and events (fixed programmes you attend) and tailored support (arranged around a specific organisation's needs).
- Check the current schedule, location or delivery format, and cost before committing — none of these are confirmed in the source material.
The site also invites visitors to sign up for free updates from Acas, which is a reasonable way to hear about new courses, events and consultation activity. Note that signing up for emails is a separate action from booking training; the subscription page is not evidence that training itself is free.
Where training fits with the rest of Acas's work
Training is best understood as the capability-building layer of Acas's service. Advice and templates help you answer a question or produce a document now; dispute resolution helps when something has already gone wrong; training and tailored support aim to build the knowledge that prevents problems arising. The site's news content illustrates the kind of change employers need to keep up with — for example, a blog post on consulting on updates to the flexible working Code, a news item on employer confidence about implementing new trade union law, and a page on the Employment Rights Act 2025 setting out which laws have already changed and what is expected in 2026 and 2027.
That context is the strongest argument for using the training strand: where the legal framework is shifting, structured courses and tailored support give employers a way to prepare rather than react. For a specific decision — which course, at what cost, delivered how — the Acas website remains the authoritative and current source.