Difficult, Dangerous & Evasive: Promotional DVD

We have recently released a promotional DVD about a new and important training course that is developed for all staff who work with people who may be difficult, dangerous or evasive. You can view an online version of the DVD by clicking on the move clip below. Note this clip may take a few minutes to load before the playback controls appear.

Recent inquiry reports, including those into the deaths of Victoria Climbié, Ainlee Labonte and the serious injuries to ‘Child B’ found that workers described adults in the children’s familes as being difficult, dangerous and evasive and have felt concerned about their own safety while attempting to work with these adults.
 
The training that Reconstruct has developed 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 can be run as a 1, 2, 3 or 5 day course providing a range of options for commissioners to decide which program best suits the needs of staff.  The training promotes the need for effective and erudite intervention through practice and rehearsal of challenging examples using actors. 

The training covers a range of practice issues which include:

• The historical context of child abuse
• Individual and collective values
• Reflective practice and critical thinking
• Evidence based practice
• Personal process (how own past experiences impact on work)
• Simulated interview scenarios
• A model of dealing with challenge
• Definitions of difficult and dangerous users
• Conflict and evasiveness
• Exit strategies
• Working in pairs-roles functions and pre-planning
• Videoed interviews with actors
• Scrutiny of practice
• Self-care and utilizing support systems

This training is challenging and exciting.  It is tailored to children’s services workers with authentic and challenging examples of practice.  Reconstruct’s experience of delivering this training has been that it is popular with frontline staff, it can bring team building benefits and is just as relevant for both newly qualified and experienced staff.  This course 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

If you would like to discuss this training please do contact me on the telephone number below or email daksha@reconstruct.co.uk
  

Daksha Mistry
Director for Training
 

Added 24 June 2008