HR Compliance for Managers, with Amanda Chadwick
Untrained managers are the single biggest source of employment-law risk in any business. The Employment Rights Act 2025 has just raised the stakes.
A six-hour CPD-certified online course, presented in full by one of the UK’s most recognised voices on HR compliance and employment law. Built for HR teams to deploy across their manager population.
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CPD-Certified Course
Immersive On-Demand
Six Engaging 1-hour units
Presented by Amanda Chadwick
Comprehensive completion metrics
Trusted by Leading Employers Worldwide
Meet your expert: Amanda Chadwick
Amanda Chadwick is one of the UK’s most recognised voices on HR compliance and employment law. An experienced speaker and trainer, she has over 30 years’ experience educating businesses across Employment Law, Health & Safety, Mental Health, Wellbeing and Menopause.
For years, HR teams across the country have turned to Amanda to make sense of complex legislation, through her training, consultancy, LinkedIn following, and live webinars that consistently fill the room.
Avado and Amanda have now partnered to take that expertise one step further: directly to the managers whose day-to-day decisions shape HR’s workload, risk exposure, and reputation. Every grievance, every claim, every avoidable escalation starts with a manager decision. This is where HR’s risk actually gets made, or prevented.
Every unit is shaped, presented and signed off by Amanda personally. When your managers complete this course, they will have learned directly from the expert your HR team already trusts.
Why this course, why now
The Employment Rights Act 2025 is bringing the most significant changes to UK employment law in a generation — and the people making decisions every day are line managers, most of whom have never been formally trained.
Day-one unfair dismissal rights. Extended family leave. New long-term sickness protections. Updated ACAS obligations. Fresh duties under the Prevention of Sexual Harassment Act.
A single poorly handled dismissal can cost a mid-sized business a six-figure sum. From 1 January 2027, the unfair dismissal cap is removed entirely — tribunals will award based on actual loss, with no ceiling.
Rise in single tribunal claims in 2025
Current cap on unfair dismissal compensation
Training priority for HR in 2026 — 323 votes from 500 surveyed
Amanda Chadwick built this course to close that gap. Equipping line managers with the employment law knowledge they need to make confident, legally sound decisions — before they cost your business.
Strengthening HR’s third line of defence
Every HR function manages employment-law risk across three lines of defence.
First Line
Your own expertise
The depth, currency and credibility of the HR team itself. The depth, currency and credibility of the HR team itself.
Second Line
Your legal and ER support
The specialist advice you bring in when something has already happened. A claim. A grievance. A complex exit.
Third Line
Your managers
The decisions managers make every day, without checking with you first. Hiring. Performance. Absence. Conduct. Grievance.
The third line is the one that decides how often the other two get called on. When your third line is weak, your second line gets expensive, fast. Tribunal claims, settlements, legal fees, reputational damage, and the management time absorbed by all of it.
When your third line is strong, most of those things never happen.
This course is built to strengthen the third line. It gives every manager in the business a defensible, consistent, current foundation, so the decisions they make day-to-day reduce the risk that ever reaches your desk, your legal team, or a tribunal. It is the cheapest, most scalable risk-reduction investment available to an HR function in 2026.
Who the course is for
Bought by HR leaders. Deployed across the manager population. Three groups in particular will get clear value.
New and first-time managers
Managers stepping into responsibility for direct reports for the first time. The course builds a confident foundation across the full employee lifecycle, from hiring through performance, absence, conduct and grievance, calibrated to current law.
The right fit if:
- The manager is new to direct reports or recently promoted
- There’s been no formal employment-law training to date
- HR is fielding the same basic questions repeatedly
Experienced managers operating under the 2025 changes
Managers who already know how to manage their teams but need to recalibrate to the new legal landscape. The course focuses on what has changed and what they need to do differently.
The right fit if:
- Managers were trained under the pre-2025 regime
- Day-one rights, extended family leave, and updated ACAS guidance need to land across the team
- A consistent practice is needed across all managers, not just the newest ones
Whole manager populations, at scale
For HR leaders who need every manager in the business operating to the same defensible standard, and want to spend less time on avoidable escalations and ER cases.
The right fit if:
- Manager capability is uneven across the business
- HR is absorbing too much work that should sit with managers
- A consistent, accredited, audit-ready baseline is needed across the whole manager population
What the course covers
Six units. Six guided learning hours. Built around Avado’s ENGAGE · STUDY · ACTIVATE · REFLECT methodology, so every concept is grounded in a real workplace scenario.
Know the Law: The Post-2025 Landscape
Employment Rights Act 2025 changes · Day-one rights: unfair dismissal and flexible working · Extended family leave · What managers must own vs. HR’s role
Hiring Fairly and Legally
Equality Act 2010 plus 2025 updates · Zero-hours and low-hours contract obligations · Right-to-work checks · Fair interview practices and AI screening risk
Managing Performance and Absence
Fair performance management frameworks · Fit notes, reasonable adjustments and disability · New protections for long-term sickness · Documenting fairly and avoiding constructive dismissal
Disciplinary and Grievance Essentials
ACAS Code of Practice with updated obligations · Conducting investigations compliantly · Gross misconduct and the dismissal process · Grievance handling: practical and legal requirements
Wellbeing, DEI and Psychological Safety
Manager duty of care and stress/burnout obligations · Prevention of Sexual Harassment Act 2023 in practice · Menopause, neurodiversity and reasonable adjustments · Creating inclusive team cultures
Confident Compliance in Day-to-Day Management
GDPR in people management · Whistleblowing obligations · When to escalate, recognising your limits · Personal action planning and continuous compliance
What does this actually save the business?
A simple, illustrative comparison for an HR Director making the case internally.
The scenario: A mid-sized organisation. 20 line managers across the business. Mixed experience. Variable confidence with the 2025 changes. No structured employment-law training currently in place.
If one ER case escalates
From 1 January 2027: the compensatory cap is removed. Awards will be assessed on actual loss, with no ceiling.
The full annual cost
What you get:
- Every manager trained to a defensible, current standard
- CPD-certified completion records, audit-ready
- Reduced ER caseload and HR firefighting
- Better decisions, made faster, by managers
If this course prevents one minor escalation, once, every five years, it has already paid for itself.
Illustrative example only. Cost ranges are based on current published UK figures for ACAS settlements, statutory tribunal awards, and typical employer legal costs. Actual risk and costs vary significantly by sector, claim type, and organisation size.
Designed for HR-led deployment
Self-paced, online, and built for managers who can’t step away from the job for classroom training. Designed by HR people, for HR people to deploy.
- Six units, six guided learning hours, fully self-paced
- Expert-led video, with Amanda Chadwick presenting every unit
- Knowledge checks and applied scenarios in every unit
- Downloadable templates, checklists and action planners
- Hosted on the Avado Hub (Thought Industries LMS)
- CPD-certified, recognised professional development
- Full learner reporting for the HR team, with completions, scores and audit trail
- £200 per learner, with volume pricing available
What this course delivers to the HR function
Reduced ER caseload
Managers handle absence, performance and conduct correctly the first time, so fewer cases escalate, fewer grievances are raised, and fewer tribunal exposures land on HR’s desk.
Lower legal and settlement spend
Every case prevented at the manager level is one your second line of defence never has to absorb.
A defensible, consistent standard across every manager
The same language, the same frameworks, the same baseline of competence, evidenced and recorded.
Audit-ready compliance
CPD-certified completion records, ready for board, ET tribunal, or due diligence scrutiny.
HR capacity freed up
Less time spent firefighting avoidable manager mistakes. More time on the strategic work HR is actually there to do.
Ready for the 2025 changes from day one
Built around the new legislation, not retrofitted to it.
Why choose Avado?
Avado is a CIPD Platinum Centre with over 50,000 learners trained. We’ve partnered with Amanda Chadwick to bring her expertise to the managers who need it: at scale, on a platform built for serious professional learning, and designed for HR teams to deploy across their organisation.
Built for managers, not lawyers
Every concept is translated into practical guidance and grounded in real workplace scenarios. No legal jargon, no theory for its own sake.
CPD-certified
Recognised professional development that learners can record against their own CPD requirements.
Backed by Avado
Over 50,000 learners trained. CIPD Platinum Centre. Trusted by HR teams across the UK.
Current to 2025 legislation
Built from the ground up around the Employment Rights Act 2025 and related changes, not a refresh of older material.
Designed for HR-led deployment
Self-paced delivery, volume pricing, and full learner reporting mean HR can roll the course out across the whole manager population.
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Key FAQs
Who teaches the course?
The course is presented in full by Amanda Chadwick, one of the UK’s most recognised voices on HR compliance and employment law for managers. Amanda has shaped the curriculum, presents every unit on camera, and has personally signed off the final content for accuracy. When your managers complete the course, they will have learned directly from her.
Who buys this course, and who completes it?
The course is bought by HR teams, typically HR Directors, Heads of HR, HRBPs, or L&D leads, and deployed across the manager population. The learners themselves are the managers: anyone in the business with direct reports who is making employment-related decisions day-to-day.
How does this course reduce risk for HR?
The course strengthens what we call HR’s third line of defence: the quality of decisions managers make every day without checking with HR. Better manager decisions mean fewer grievances, fewer ER cases, fewer tribunal exposures, and lower legal spend. It’s a preventative investment that pays back across the whole HR risk portfolio.
Is the course CPD-certified?
Yes. The course is CPD-certified through an approved CPD body, meaning learners can record completion against their professional development requirements. Avado is also a CIPD Platinum Centre, recognised for excellence in HR qualification delivery.
How is the course delivered?
The course is delivered online and self-paced through the Avado Hub, hosted on the Thought Industries platform. Learners can complete units at their own pace, return to material at any time, and access downloadable templates and tools alongside Amanda’s video content. HR teams get full learner reporting for completions and assessment results.
How long does the course take?
The course runs to six guided learning hours across six units. Most learners complete it across several sittings over a few weeks, fitting it around their day job.
Can we book the course for a whole manager population?
Yes, and this is the most common use case. The course is available for individual purchase at £200 per learner, with volume pricing available for team and organisation-wide bookings. Get in touch via the enquiry form for a quote.
Does the course cover the Employment Rights Act 2025?
Yes, extensively. The 2025 Act is the central organising frame for the course. Day-one unfair dismissal rights, extended family leave, updated ACAS obligations, and the manager’s role under the new regime are covered across the six units.