Learning disabilities training workshops for team managers
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Research in Practice for Adults (RiPfA) are running four workshops in March to support Team Managers who need to understand and deliver effective lifespan safeguarding in practice for people with learning disabilities.

The workshops will deliver the following:

  • Clearer understanding of how risk enablement and person-centred working can begin earlier in the life course and continue throughout.
  • An up to date knowledge of safeguarding under the Care Act and other new guidance and legislation, including a making safeguarding personal approach.
  • The ability to challenge existing systems where they are not providing person-centred lifespan approaches, and celebrate where they are.
  • Ideas and tools to make lifespan safeguarding for people with learning disabilities work in practice.

Dates and locations: Lifespan safeguarding for people with learning disabilities Team Managers’ Workshop:

  •     11 March, Birmingham
  •     12 March, Manchester
  •     24 March, London
  •     25 March, Bristol

To find out more or book your place, email [email protected] or call the RiP Events Team on 01803 847264.

Background

The recent publication of the Winterbourne View – Time for Change report once again focuses the media spotlight on the events at Winterbourne View back in 2011.

The report is focused very much around the requirements for commissioners, but highlights that some of the progress against the Winterbourne View concordat has not been at the pace predicted. Recommendations from the original report require a life course approach in respect of services for adults who have learning disabilities.

Given that the sector has found it challenging to meet the requirements of the report Transforming care: a national response to Winterbourne View hospital, RiPfA are developing resources to support a life course approach. This series of workshops is being developed and delivered by Dr Margaret Flynn, co-author of the Serious Case Review into Winterbourne view.

Effective transition is a key feature of any lifespan approach. There are some challenges for practice in terms of safeguarding, especially relating to the shift from child protection processes towards adult safeguarding where we put the adult at the heart of the process.