Working with Hostile and Evasive Families (formerly known as Working with Dangerous Families)

On-Line Learning

• Social Care Institute for Excellence (www.scie.org.uk)

• Violence to Staff Leaflet (www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/violindx.htm)

Learning outcomes:  (what you could expect to achieve)

• Risk Assessment

• Protecting Staff from Abuse

Learning Materials

• J. Stanley & C. Goddard (2002), In the Firing Line, Violence and Power in Child Protection Work, Wiley

• LSCB Practice Guidance, Working with Hostile Families

• C. Cherniss, 1995, Beyond Burnout, Routledge, N. York
  

Learning outcomes:  (what you could expect to achieve)

• Useful reading re. vulnerability of staff, impact on assessment of risk to children and importance of work cultures that enable workers to discuss openly experiences of/fears of violence and its impacts.

Training Event

Title: Working with Hostile and Evasive Families (formally known as Working with Dangerous Families)

(2-days)

Date: 21st & 22nd May 2012

Target group: People who work with children and young people. This event is suitable for people in the above role who work in the independent and voluntary sector.

Learning outcomes:  (what you could expect to achieve)

• To consider the concepts of risk and dangerousness as they apply to families

• To identify and examine the impact of hostility and fear upon staff and its consequences for the effective safeguarding of children

• To identify and explore strategies and methods of working with families who are perceived to be dangerous.

Contact

Lead Officer:                                    

Jayne Paterson      

Tel. No: 0116 2211706 (39 1706)

E-Mail: Jayne.Paterson@leicester.gov.uk

Booking and administration:

Zubair Mulla

Tel. No: 0116 2211702 (39 1702)

E-Mail: Zubair.Mulla@leicester.gov.uk