Self-Neglect & Hoarding 24/25

Target Group:

This course is targeted to adult social care staff and those in residential care, nursing care, home care and supported living settings, personal assistants and other frontline practitioners who have regular contact with service users/patients and their families or carers in the London Borough of Sutton. 

Staff Groups B, C, D, and E as per the Bournemouth University National Mental Capacity Act Competency Framework. 
Level 3 staff and above (ref: NHS Intercollegiate document 2018 - Adult Safeguarding: Roles and Competencies For Healthcare Staff): registered health care staff who engage in assessing, planning, intervening and evaluating the needs of adults where there are safeguarding concerns (as appropriate to role). 

Aims:

The aims of this course are to:

• Give health and social care staff (including professionals and volunteers) an awareness of the concept of self-neglect, as introduced by the Care Act 2014;
  Implement the SSAB Self-Neglect and Hoarding protocol.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this course participants will have:

By the end of the course participants will have:

• An increased knowledge and understanding of the concept of ‘self-neglect’ and behaviours that indicate it;
• An improved understanding of the nature of hoarding behaviours as a particular type of self-neglect, and why this may occur;
• An improved understanding about the difficulty in engaging clients who self-neglect;
• An increased awareness about findings from research studies concerning self-neglect and hoarding;
• An increased awareness of learning outcomes from SARs that have involved self-neglect and how to apply key messages to practice;
• An improved understanding of mental capacity and the legal framework of the issues raised by self-neglect and hoarding;
• An improved awareness of the Human Rights Act and how this may impact on the individual who may self-neglect, in particular Articles 8 and 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights;
• An improved awareness of the responsibilities of Local Authorities under Section 42 of the Care Act 2014 with regard to making enquiries concerning the safeguarding of individuals who may be at risk; and
• An increased knowledge of local policies and procedures regarding adults who may self-neglect, how the care pathways specified may operate and how to take forward safeguarding concerns.