Housing and the Care Act
To provide local authority staff (other than those with primary adult social care responsibilities) with key information about the Care Act 2014 and its intersection with local authority housing duties
Housing
Housing plays a critical role in safeguarding, wellbeing and early intervention. Our Housing training courses are designed to support housing professionals to confidently navigate the complex interface between housing, health and social care, strengthening practice in areas such as safeguarding, professional curiosity, legal duties and working with vulnerability. Grounded in current legislation and real‑world practice, these courses equip staff to identify risk, respond effectively and work collaboratively with partners to improve outcomes for individuals, families and communities
Our Housing training recognises the increasingly complex role of housing services in responding to risk, vulnerability and inequality. Courses support staff to understand their statutory responsibilities, work lawfully and proportionately, and make informed, confident decisions at the point of contact. With a strong focus on prevention, strengths‑based practice and effective multi‑agency working, our training helps housing professionals to spot early warning signs, ask the right questions and take appropriate action, particularly where issues such as safeguarding, mental health, domestic abuse, homelessness and care and support needs intersect. All courses are practical, up to date and delivered by experienced practitioners who understand the realities of housing practice.
Our Housing Courses
Enhancing Professional Curiosity for Housing Staff
To equip housing team members with the skills and knowledge to effectively apply professional curiosity in their daily interactions, ensuring better support and safeguarding for vulnerable adults and children.
Embracing Change
A course for participants to understand the change process as well as the pace of change and how we can control our journey positively. Also to become resilient and maintain a positive mindset throughout the whole process; to embrace and take an active part in the process every time.
The course will enable participants to build the skills and confidence to enable them to self navigate through the change journey understanding how much control they have. They will develop resilience to positively embrace change and motivate themselves throughout and beyond.
The Mindful Manager in Times of Crisis
This course helps participants understand how and why we think, feel and react to stress and to understand and practice mindful responses to stress. Mindfulness will help develop present moment awareness to see life differently, change unhelpful patterns and experience more choice. It will inject moments of stillness into times of disorder, panic, crisis.
The course will enable participants to apply Mindfulness personally and professionally to reduce stress in everyday lives.
The interactive session enables managers to look at difficult times and challenges, some of which we have no experience of and be able to mindfully choose and action effective plans for self and others.
Bereavement & Loss
The key aim of the bereavement training is to increase knowledge or care after death procedures, grief and bereavement (including suicide), develop an understanding in order to build confidence and enhance skills needed to work sensitively and empathically with families, carer’s and others who experience loss and grief.
Trauma Informed Practice Awareness
This Trauma Informed Practice Awareness Training course focuses on Trauma Informed Practice and what the adoption of this as a core value means for service delivery and equality of access.
It explores the concept of trauma, how it can remain a contributing factor throughout someone’s life and how organizations can adapt the way they offer services to become more accessible and safe for those who are trauma experienced
Trauma Informed Practice (Adults)
This Trauma Informed Practice (Adults) Training course aims to give participants an understanding of the effects of trauma on human development and behaviour. It considers the role of developmental and emotional trauma and the potential life long effects this can have on people’s outcomes. The programme also considers the effect of trauma and moral injury on the workers supporting people and how this can cause moral injury and detachment from the needs of people we aim to help
Managing Pressure & Maintaining Resilience at Work
People attending this course will gain a fuller understanding of stress, how it can manifest itself and the actions we can take to counteract it.
Working in a Changing Environment
The aim of this workshop is to provide individuals with a range of tools to support them in a changing work environment such as during a Restructure and Reorganisation.
Trauma Informed Practice (Childrens)
This one-day Trauma Informed Practice (Childrens) Training course introduces practitioners to trauma informed practice and enables them to be able to consider adverse childhood experiences and how these may lead to trauma
