Difficult, Dangerous & Evasive: Promotional DVD

Government and media responses to the death of baby P have failed to recognise just how hard it is to manage parents who are dangerous, difficult or evasive.

Other child death and serious injury 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 families as being difficult, dangerous or evasive and have felt concerned about their own safety while attempting to work with these adults.

Our training 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.mistry@reconstruct.co.uk
  

Daksha Mistry
Director for Training
 

Added 24 June 2008