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Personal safety training for mentoring and befriending programmes, volunteers and clients

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This course helps you to implement practical steps to improve your policies and procedures around personal safety for your volunteers and clients. It includes developing frameworks for managing lone working practices and dealing with aggressive behaviour. It is designed following the principles of the Approved Provider Standard in particular around safeguarding and is run in partnership with the Suzy Lamplugh Trust.

When 11 Mar 2010 from 09:30 am to 04:00 pm
Where NCVO, Regent's Wharf, 8 All Saints Street, London, N1 9RL
About discipline, day to day, managing volunteers, management, member of staff, appraisals, grievance, paid staff, solicitors, legal, managing staff, supervision, courts, law, absenteeism
Type training
Who Programme managers and co-ordinators who are concerned with personal safety and safeguarding
Aims
  • Explain the law as it relates to personal safety and signpost to relevant legal information
  • Demonstrate practical steps to undertake personal safety risk assessments assessing the volunteer or staff member; the environment; the activity and the client within your project
  • Practice, discuss and demonstrate ways to defuse aggressive behaviour
     

Learning outcomes

  • Good understanding of the strategies needed to implement the "10 Best Practice Guidelines"
  • Increased knowledge of the law and relevant legal information
  • Improved understanding of personal safety risks
  • Enhanced understanding of nature, causes and good responses to aggressive behaviour and conflict


Trainer biography

Pierre Lombaard from The Suzy Lamplugh Trust (the national charity for personal safety) has many years of experience working on all aspects of personal safety in a number of voluntary, education and business sectors.

 

For more details contact Stewart Graham tel 0161 787 8600 or at ntp@mandbf.org.uk

More details are available at the event website