Public Sector Event
Westminster Insight - Self-Neglect and Hoarding Online Training
Venue: Online
Date: 2 Jul 2024
Synopsis: Join Westminster Insight’s Self-Neglect and Hoarding training course, to hear from leading safeguarding trainer Deborah Barnett. You will investigate real life case studies to explore the relationship between trauma, attachment and self-neglect.
Details:
Self-neglect and hoarding often places the personal health and safety of individuals at risk. Services are required to implement effective safeguarding strategies to protect vulnerable adults, whilst carrying out complex assessments of a person’s capacity to self-care.
Join Westminster Insight’s Self-Neglect and Hoarding training course, to hear from leading safeguarding trainer Deborah Barnett on this complex area of work. You will investigate real life case studies to explore the relationship between trauma, attachment and self-neglect.
This course will support agencies and professionals in conducting capacity and needs assessments, in line with the Mental Capacity Act. Learn how to identify cases of hoarding and underlining issues, taking a person-centred approach to early intervention.
We will provide you with research proven solutions to engaging with individuals with self-neglect conditions such as hoarding, discussing fair and effective responses to achieving mutual and long-term positive outcomes.
Course Outcomes
- Understand trauma informed approaches to self-neglect and hoarding
- Learn early interventions and responses to support effective safeguarding
- Explore care management and social work interventions in relation to the Care Act guidance
- To use reasonable belief capacity assessments and to work with the continuum of decision-making processes
- Identify the need for multi-agency and multi-disciplinary meetings to support practitioners
- Evaluate the differences between lifestyle choice and the impact of trauma
Expert Trainer
Deborah Barnett is a published author of articles and books relating to safeguarding adults and self-neglect / hoarding. Deborah is the independent chair and author of Safeguarding Adult Reviews and Domestic Homicide Reviews and provides Safeguarding Adults Boards with consultancy services. Deborah is qualified to act as an expert practitioner in equality and diversity for court purposes, qualified as a social worker, teacher and manager and has also worked as a Multi-Agency Risk Assessment (MARAC) Chair. Training and consultancy are services that Deborah provides.
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