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TRAINING - Manchester - Personal safety training for mentoring and befriending programmes volunteers and clients
Date: 08/12/2009Time: 09:30 - 16:00
Location: MDDA, 117-119 Portland St, Manchester, M1 6ED
Concerned about the personal safety risks that your volunteers and staff are facing?
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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.
This course is designed following the principles of the Approved Provider Standard in particular around safeguarding.
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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
Audience
- Programme managers and co-ordinators who are concerned with personal safety and safeguarding
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.
Course materials
- Guide - Personal safety guidance including booklet for co-ordinator, leaflet for the volunteer and poster for the office
This course is also available in London and Bristol.
Accessible Pricing
Charges for 2009/2010 | Member price | Non-member price |
Voluntary/Community/Statutory groups (less than 5 staff) | £90.00 £103.50 inc VAT | £110.00 £126.50 inc VAT |
Voluntary/Community/Statutory groups (less than 15 staff) | £120.00 £138.00 inc VAT | £140.00 £161.00 inc VAT |
Voluntary/Community/Statutory groups (more than 15 staff) | £150.00 £172.50 inc VAT | £170.00 £195.50 inc VAT |
Commercial and private sector groups | £190.00 £218.50 inc VAT | £210.00 £241.50 inc VAT |
For further information email ntp@mandbf.org.uk
