Course Summary

Self-neglect and hoarding often places the personal health and safety of individuals at risk. Services are required to implement effective safeguarding strategies to protect vulnerable adults, whilst carrying out complex assessments of a person’s capacity to self-care.

Join Westminster Insight’s Self-Neglect and Hoarding training course, to hear from leading safeguarding trainer Deborah Barnett on this complex area of work. You will investigate real life case studies to explore the relationship between trauma, attachment and self-neglect.

This course will support agencies and professionals in conducting capacity and needs assessments, in line with the Mental Capacity Act. Learn how to identify cases of hoarding and underlining issues, taking a person-centred approach to early intervention.

We will provide you with research proven solutions to engaging with individuals with self-neglect conditions such as hoarding, discussing fair and effective responses to achieving mutual and long-term positive outcomes.