Safeguarding and Social Care
Resources
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Going Beyond: Homeless Link's practice podcast
Our podcast focusing on practice in the homelessness sector.
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Safeguarding Adults Reviews
Guidance on Safeguarding Adults Reviews, including what they are, why to conduct them, the process, and learning from previous reviews.
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The Care Act and Social Care Assessments
Guidance on how to support people accessing homelessness services to request an assessment under the Care Act, how eligibility for social care is determined, and what happens once a decision is made.
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Bitesize Learning: Mental Health and Homelessness
Check out our free bitesize e-learning series on mental health and homelessness for people working in frontline homelessness services.
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Safeguarding Adults at Risk
Guidance on safeguarding adults, including how to raise a safeguarding alert and the role of Safeguarding Adults Boards.
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Understanding hoarding
Guidance on understanding hoarding including why people hoard, and how to support someone who has a hoarding issue.
News
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Meeting the needs of people experiencing homelessness with a traumatic brain injury
Dr Jess Barton, Lead of the Westminster Homeless Neuropsychology Pathway, outlines the challenges faced by people experiencing homelessness with a brain injury and offers support tips for homelessness staff.
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Camden: Trauma informed personal passports
To help people experiencing homelessness to access services more effectively the Camden Homelessness System Partnership has devised a passport that can be used across services. This guest blog explains more.
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Is it time for change in social care and homelessness? Our response to the Casey Commission
This blog summarises the evidence we presented to the Casey Commission, laying out how a social care focus could help transform the homelessness system for the better.
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How radical safeguarding can create systemic change for people experiencing homelessness
For Safeguarding Adults week, Gill Taylor, Strategic Lead for the Dying Homeless Project and independent Safeguarding Adult Review author, talks about the Radical Safeguarding Toolkit and encourages practitioners to challenge the status quo of harm and discrimination, and move towards anti-oppressive practice.
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Free online training from Homeless Link
Checkout our free online bitesize e-learning packages for people working in frontline homelessness services. Also including fundraising training.
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Housing First research highlights huge cross-sector impact
New research into the holistic long-term outcomes of Housing First strengthens the case for a national cross-departmental programme for people experiencing complex needs.
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Strengths-Based Practice: an introduction
Find out how working with people's strengths can make their experience of services more dignified, useful and empowering - and lead to better outcomes.
Online Members £145pp, Non-Members £185pp -
Compassion-Informed Workshops: What if the way we react to the crisis, is the crisis?
A programme of compassion-informed practice development. This programme consists of 2x half-day interactive online workshops. Through exploring compassion for others (people who access services) and compassion for self, the workshops aim to help you get curious about your subconscious drivers and develop your capacity to respond – not react, to the challenges you face at work.
Online Members £165pp, Non-Members £205pp -
Psychologically Informed Environments (PIE)
This course teaches you how to create a supportive environment by exploring five important elements and empowering frontline staff to lead the change.
Online Members £145pp, Non-Members £185pp