by dynamistraining | Friday, February 23, 2018 | Legal Court Case, Lone Worker Personal Safety, Personal Safety
Lone Social Worker team assaulted and Local authority fined £100k A local authority has been fined after two of its social workers were assaulted on a home visit by the mother of a vulnerable child they were visiting. Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard how, on 3...
by dynamistraining | Thursday, February 15, 2018 | Breakaway Skills, Conflict Management, Fostering, Legal Court Case, Training Design
Foster Carers and Conflict Training Since the supreme court judgement on Armes v Nottinghamshire County Council, it is now clear that Local Authorities have vicarious liability for the actions of foster parents. Despite persistently poor advice from many supervising...
by dynamistraining | Monday, February 6, 2017 | Breakaway Skills, Care Home Risks, Dementia Care, Elderly Mentally Infirm EMI, Legal Court Case, mental health unit, Personal Safety, PMVA Training
Breakaway Training mentioned in Dementia Care Home Assault Case A 75-year-old resident in a care home suffered from dementia and since arriving at the home four months before the assault, he had committed 13 acts of aggression and at least 5 attempts at serious acts...
by dynamistraining | Monday, February 6, 2017 | Legal Court Case, Lone Worker Personal Safety, Personal Safety
Training Lone Workers Sometimes means making sure that they carefully decide whether a visit should go ahead and how many people should go. Sometimes, client history means no visit. In a rough-cut from a recent course where we were Training Lone Workers, our Director...
by dynamistraining | Wednesday, February 1, 2017 | Breakaway Skills, Conflict Management, learning disabilities, Legal Court Case, Lone Worker Personal Safety, Personal Safety
Employers have a legal duty under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare at work of their employees. This act of parliament places a statutory duty on employers, besides their common law...
by dynamistraining | Monday, January 9, 2017 | Conflict Resolution, edged weapon protection, knife assault, Legal Court Case, Lone Worker Personal Safety, Personal Safety, Psychiatric
In this rough-cut video clip from a recent Lone Worker Personal Safety Training programme, our Director of Training and Keeping Lone Workers Safe expert trainer Gerard O’Dea discusses one important case where a lone worker was seriously attacked by a person who...
