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TWSP face-to-face training – either virtually or in-person – is available to all TWSP partner agencies. If you already have an Ollie account, please log in to Ollie and book your place, unless otherwise instructed. If you do not have an existing Ollie account, please email partnerships@telford.gov.uk and they will be able to assist.
If you have any problems using your Ollie account, please email ollie@telford.gov.uk
TWSP training is free for all professionals and practitioners but please ensure that when you complete your Ollie account form that you complete the billing details section. This is needed in the event of non-attendance or late cancellation, or where a course is chargeable. You will be notified if there is a charge for the course for non-attendance.
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Free Domestic Abuse Awareness Lunch and Learn session - 20.11.23
Telford and Wrekin Safeguarding Partnership (TWSP) are hosting an online seminar (via Teams) to raise awareness around Domestic Abuse. The session will be jointly delivered by West Mercia Police, the ICB and Cranstoun (the new Domestic Abuse Service for Telford and Wrekin) and will cover the following topics:
- The role of the DARO
- MARAC process
- Information on Clare’s Law (DVDS)
- The role of a DHR’s
- In introduction to the new Domestic Abuse Service Provider for Telford and Wrekin
- Different forms of domestic abuse and warning flags to look out for
- Q and A session
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If you are interested in attending please just drop an email to partnerships@telford.gov.uk and we will forward you the Teams link to join. A recording of the previous session along with any supporting information has been uploaded to the TWSP website. (https://www.telfordsafeguardingpartnership.org.uk/info/4/training-events/7/training)
Blue Light Bulletin 80 - Publication of our Guidance on Cognitive Impairment in Dependent Drinkers
We’re delighted to share our latest guidance on Identifying and addressing cognitive impairment in dependent drinkers. This guidance has been developed as part of a national, multi-partner initiative. It involved both national experts like Prof. Ken Wilson and Dr Julia Lewis, as well as partners from 25 local authorities and treatment agencies around England and Wales.
Cognitive impairment is very common in dependent drinkers. Therefore, anyone working with dependent drinkers needs to be aware of the impact it can have. Most practitioners, however, will not meet dependent drinkers with a diagnosis of cognitive impairment; they will instead meet dependent drinkers who are confused, impulsive and possibly self-destructive and who they suspect may have a cognitive impairment. The problem is that the next steps can be very difficult. Securing a diagnosis may be a challenge. The dependent drinkers themselves may be hard to engage. Their behaviour may be dismissed as a ‘lifestyle choice’ or attributed to intoxication rather than brain damage.
It is this situation that is the focus of this guidance. Its target audience is the practitioner struggling with an individual who finds it difficult to move forward because of cognitive impairments or the challenging requirements of other services. Read the report
Open Access Blue Light training course
Mark Holmes, co-author of the Blue Light Manual, is running a one day open access Blue Light training course on 6th July that organisations can send individual staff members on it if they don't have enough people needing to be trained for them to justify commissioning a day. Perfect for new starters etc! You can book places here.
Reminder - Recordings of our cognitive impairment webinars are available now
As part of the cognitive impairment project, we created a series of one hour webinars on various aspects of cognitive impairment:
- Alcohol Related Brain Damage
- Using Legal Powers to Protect Cognitively Impaired drinkers
- Living with Korsakoffs Psychosis
- Understanding Memory, Brain Injury & Neuropsychiatry Services
- The Glasgow Model
- The Use of Pabrinex
- Speech and Language Therapy for Cognitive Impairment
These recordings are available now. You can access them from the bottom of this page. They offer a tremendous training and professional development resource for anyone working in this field.
AFA Report: Alcohol And Intimate Partner Relationships A Research Study
A new research study was published in April through the Alcohol and Families Alliance which looks at the experiences of those affected by the drinking of an intimate partner and the negative effects drinking can have on a relationship.
The study finds that drinking does not necessarily need to be frequent or considered dependent to have a negative effect on partners and relationships. A range of negative effects were reported, including a breakdown of trust between partners, conflict, tension and lack of emotional connection and intimacy. You can access the report here.
Alcohol Assertive Outreach Guide
A final reminder that Alcohol Change UK has published its new alcohol assertive outreach handbook. The handbook highlights the benefits of assertive outreach with people who have the most entrenched, long-standing alcohol problems, as well as other unmet complex needs. Contact us to find out more about alcohol assertive outreach training: training@alcoholchange.org.uk
Alcohol Change UK training
We can deliver our award-winning Blue Light course, our safeguarding vulnerable dependent drinkers course, and our cognitive impairment course, along with a host of other courses either in-person or online, depending on your needs. If you think that would be of use to your workforce or local area, do get in touch.
New Course Launch: Domestic Abuse and Suicide: Research, Risk and Reviews
AAFDA has a range of courses for professionals working at various levels within the Domestic Abuse sector. A number of our courses are CPD certified, awarding you CPD credits towards your professional development goals. To find out which course is right for you, simply click on one of the live course titles below to view the course outline and book your place. Please find more information here.
Safe Care at Home Review
Research and analysis, Safe care at home review, a joint review led by the Home Office and the DHSC into the protections and support for adults abused, or at risk of abuse, in their own home by people providing their care. The review drew on the experience of people who receive care in their own homes, organisations representing carers, and statutory agencies including frontline professionals.
The review developed a set of cross-government actions for implementing change over 3 key themes:
1. Strengthening accountability and oversight mechanisms to better protect and support victims.
2. Strengthening training and guidance so this type of harm and relevant legislative protections are better understood by frontline professionals.
3.Improving the data and evidence available about this type of harm.
The report in various formats can be accessed here https://gov.uk/government/publications/safe-care-at-home-review
The key findings of the review and what government will do in response can be found in Chapter 6.
DHR Reform Update and Consultation Launch
Please see a letter from Lynne Abrams, Head of Interpersonal Abuse Unit and Chair of the DHR QA Panel about a public consultation that we have launched today, and a wider update on DHR Reform.
Please find details on how to respond in the letter, we look forward to hearing your feedback.
Working Together consultation launch and events
Please find a letter here to be disseminated to all safeguarding partners and Directors of Children's Services on behalf of the Multi-Agency Safeguarding Partners Performance (MASPP) Board.
Directors of Children's Services on behalf of the Multi-Agency Safeguarding Partners Performance (MASPP) Board.
This letter relates to the launch of the Working Together to Safeguard Children statutory guidance consultation this week and includes details of the opportunities for all agencies to participate in consultation events.
We want to thank all safeguarding partners for your support with our work to improve children and families' outcomes and encourage you and your workforces to continue to engage with these important reforms.
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Home Conditions Assessment Tool
The Council have adapted the home conditions assessment tool from Buckinghamshire County Council as developed with Bruce Thornton. Please see the revised assessment tool here.
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The Partnership Has a New Director for Adult Social Care
The partnership would like to welcome Simon Froud who recently started as their new Director for Adult Social Care. Simon joins them from Essex County Council, having worked for many years in social and health care. This is a vital role in the partnership, supporting those who need it in our borough to live as independently as possible. We know that adult social care faces many challenges and that Simon arrives with a commitment and energy to tackle these alongside the service.
Summer Holiday Urban Games
All please more details here on the Urban games offer we are doing across the wards during the summer holidays below, please share through your networks. Sessions are running in the following wards;
- Donnington
- College
- Arleston
- Brookside
- St Georges
- Sutton Hill
- Woodside
- Stirchley
- Malinslee
- Leegomery
- Overdale
- Lawley
- Lightmoor
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