Difficult, dangerous and evasive
FREE workshop
6 October 2010, Glasgow
Many Inquiry reports, including those into the deaths of Brandon Le Muir, Victoria Climbié, Baby Peter and now Family Q from Sheffield, have found that workers described adults in the children’s families as being difficult, dangerous and evasive and have felt concerned about their own safety while attempting to work with these adults. The Baby Peter tragedy also highlighted the complexities of addressing child protection issues with service users who are evasive.
Reconstruct has developed training that highlights these concerns and fills a gap in what is one of the most neglected areas of training: the critical dynamic between worker and service user, particularly when concerns about child protection need to be raised.
This training highlights these concerns and explores the dynamics between workers and families where there is a threat of hostility. It fills a gap in what is one of the most neglected areas of training: the critical dynamic between worker and service user, particularly when concerns about child protection need to be raised.
It promotes the need for effective and erudite intervention through practice and is run using actors to create a live challenging role play scenario for participants.
The training can be run as a one, two or three day course providing a range of options for commissioners to decide which programme best suits the needs of staff.
It covers a range of practice issues which include:
- the current context of child protection work
- individual and collective values
- reflective practice and critical thinking
- personal process (how own past experiences impact on work)
- simulated interview scenarios
- a model of communciation
- definitions of difficult and dangerous and evasive users
- exit strategies
- scrutiny of practice
- self-care and utilising support systems.
Reconstruct is holding a free workshop for staff development officers to give you the opportunity to experience this training for yourself.
Time and place: 6 October, 2010, Jury's Inn, Glasgow
To book your place please contact Cathy Bostock on 01895 204861 or email cathy.bostock@reconstruct.co.uk
The training is tailored to children’s services workers and is relevant for both newly qualified and experienced staff. It can be run as either single agency or multi-agency training. We would be pleased to put you in touch with other staff development officers who can act as referees for this experience.
To view a brief demonstration of this training visit the Reconstruct website www.reconstruct.co.uk
I look forward to seeing you on 6 October.
Daksha Mistry
Director for Training |
