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Workshop No. 4 - March 2012
Safeguarding homeless adults, children and families
22 March 9.30am-4pm
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Session 1: Substance Misuse and Homelessness: Risk Factors
Mandy Scott Morgan
Mandy has over 25 years experience in the Social care and teaching sectors. I have been a training officer for Birmingham DAAT (the largest commissioners of drug and alcohol services in Europe). I have been a Substance Misuse Practitioner and managed a Young Persons Substance Misuse Team in a custodial setting. I am a Freelance Assessor and Further Education Teacher.
Ricky Bhandal
Ricky has 10 years of experience working in the substance misuse sector and has been a supervisor for an arrest referral team. He is involved in workforce development as a BDAAT training Officer.
Session 2: Child Safeguarding
Clare Edwards:
Clare worked as a general nurse in London in 1977 and as a midwife and Health visitor across the city from 1981- 2005 and as a HV is a past winner of the West Midlands SHA innovation in practice award. The role of Safeguarding lead nurse commenced in South Birmingham in 2005, and in July 2011 following a merger of the three former PCT areas which made up the city Clare was appointed as Head of Service Safeguarding Children for Birmingham Community Healthcare Trust. This current role reflects BCHC’s responsibility for safeguarding children throughout all universal and specialist provider community services for children, adults, adults with learning disabilities, rehabilitation and the dental hospital. Clare chairs the Birmingham Joint domestic abuse screening forum and is a facilitator for the DH national programme in safeguarding leadership and a West Midlands representative for BASPCAN.
Session 3: Substance misuse the impact on families
Melanie Mills
Melanie Mills qualified as a social worker in 2000 and worked in local authority child protection teams for nine years. She has worked as a safeguarding advisor with family support workers in Children Centres across Birmingham. She has also worked in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) for several years and has a keen interest in promoting mental and emotional health in children. Currently she is employed by Aquarius, an adult service specialising in helping service users overcome the harms caused by alcohol, drugs and gambling. She is the Safeguarding Lead Practitioner across several teams in Birmingham. It is her role to encourage best practice in relation to safeguarding children by delivering training, supervision and consultation and advice.
Graham Woods
Graham Woods is an Alcohol Practitioner with Aquarius and has had several years’ experience of working directly with service users who misuse both alcohol and drugs. He also delivers a variety of support groups for clients who are at varying stages of recovery and is committed to building on service user involvement and participation in their own recovery journey. Graham has experience of family work and delivering support groups for relatives of substance misusers. Graham has also worked in prisons, schools, probation and other settings, delivering alcohol and drugs education.
Session 4: Safeguarding homeless people : the reality
Jo Davis: Manager of the Homeless Primary Care Team and the Homeless Community Mental Health Team in Birmingham which are part of the Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. I have worked with vulnerable communities for the last few years with Traveller Gypsy Families as a Health Visitor and with Asylum Seekers as team manager.
Session 5: Safeguarding - street outreach, sexworkers and homelessness
Debbie Savage
Debbie Savage is the Lead Outreach Worker for Street Sex Work/Drugs and Crisis Intervention at the Safe Project in Birmingham.
Session 6: Practical safeguarding in homeless hostels
Paddy Kelly
Paddy has worked within the homeless field for approximately 6 years:
- From 2006 – 2008 Headed up a street homeless Outreach team, working with rough sleepers.
- 2008 – 2010 – Managing single adult homeless hostels.
- 2010 – present – Managing homeless family hostel.
Alix Dean
Alix has worked with Homeless families for the last 10 years, first as a Family Support Worker working on the front line supporting the families (2002-2005) & then as the Family Support Service Manager from 2005 until present day. Although the manager’s role requires me to take more of a strategic role I am never far from the face to face work with the families & young people.
Session 7: Prevent strategy in Health
Chris Charlton
Chris Charlton is the Programme Director for Prevent at the Department of Health. He is also Head of Workforce and Training for NHS Contracting within the Policy, Strategy & Finance Directorate. Chris has led Workforce for the DH ISTC programme since 2003. Before arriving at the Department he spent 4 years consulting in performance & operations management across a number of NHS Acute Trusts within London. His previous background was in the commercial sector.
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