Voice and safety
Lived experience, peer leadership and safeguarding adults.
- Level
- Bitesize
- Learning time
- 1 hour 15 minutes
- Where
- Homelessness, Mental Health and Multiple Disadvantage
- Price
- £39
When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Read the full terms
Certificate of Completion
Overview and Outcomes.
Overview
People who have lived through homelessness, mental ill health or drug use hold knowledge that services cannot see about themselves. This module uses Baljeet Sandhu's three forms of expertise, a spectrum of lived experience roles and the core qualities of peer support, and reads White and colleagues' 2020 meta-analysis honestly. It covers paying people properly, what good peer roles need, and lived experience across the commissioning cycle. Adults facing homelessness, mental ill health, substance use and exploitation often live with risks that become easy to normalise. This module sets safeguarding law in Wales and England side by side, then explores self-neglect, the Mental Capacity Act 2005 principles, professional curiosity and Lord Laming's respectful uncertainty, exploitation, recurring review findings and managing risk together. It is an overview for leaders, not legal advice.
What you'll develop
In this Bitesize, you will develop the ability to:
- Explain Sandhu's three forms of expertise, lived, learnt and practice, and place your organisation's lived experience roles on the spectrum from feedback to leadership.
- Assess a peer role against shared experience, mutuality, hope and choice, and describe what the research evidence on peer support does and does not show.
- Design involvement and peer roles that build people rather than drain them, with fair pay, supervision, progression and a real place in commissioning.
- Explain why labels such as lifestyle choice and not engaging can close down thinking, and use professional curiosity and respectful uncertainty instead.
- Apply the five principles of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 with care, recognising the trap of treating they chose it as the end of the conversation.
- Identify signs of exploitation and the themes reviews keep finding, and outline a shared process for managing risk with partners and with the person.
The Modules.
1 hour 15 minutes of learning.
- 12Lived Experience and Peer LeadershipPeople who have lived through homelessness, mental ill health or drug use hold knowledge that services cannot see about themselves. This module uses Baljeet Sandhu's three forms of expertise, a spectrum of lived experience roles and the core qualities of peer support, and reads White and colleagues' 2020 meta-analysis honestly. It covers paying people properly, what good peer roles need, and lived experience across the commissioning cycle.39 min
- 13Safeguarding Adults Facing Multiple DisadvantageAdults facing homelessness, mental ill health, substance use and exploitation often live with risks that become easy to normalise. This module sets safeguarding law in Wales and England side by side, then explores self-neglect, the Mental Capacity Act 2005 principles, professional curiosity and Lord Laming's respectful uncertainty, exploitation, recurring review findings and managing risk together. It is an overview for leaders, not legal advice.41 min
Keep going.
Part of the Homelessness, Mental Health and Multiple Disadvantage topic, also sold whole as No wrong door.
Go deeper, and pay only the difference
- You are hereBitesize, 1 hour 15 minutes, £39
- Next stepFocus, Working with, not doing to, 4 hours, £69. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £30.
- Explore, Services that hold people, 5 hours 30 minutes, £129. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £90.
- The whole topicImmerse, No wrong door, 11 hours, £249. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £210.
When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Prices per person. Read the full terms
Other Bitesize in the Homelessness, Mental Health and Multiple Disadvantage topic
- Hard edgesHomelessness, its scale and multiple disadvantage2 hours£39
- Minds under pressureMental health, homelessness and the law1 hour 15 minutes£39
- Keeping people aliveSubstance use, co-occurring conditions and harm reduction1 hour 15 minutes£39
- Two laws, one duty of careHomelessness law in Wales and England1 hour 15 minutes£39
- A home firstHousing First and psychologically informed services1 hour 15 minutes£39
- Holding the system togetherWorking across the system and staff wellbeing1 hour 15 minutes£39
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