Premier League and Football League Safeguarding
AFTA Thought were delighted to begin a new working relationship with both the Premier League and the Football League.


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Cheshire and Wirral Partnerships NHS Foundation Trust MCA and DOLS
AFTA Thought are preparing to deliver our eighth Mental Capacity Act, and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards, sessions for CWP this year.


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Hate Crimes - Wolverhampton Homes
Learning from Serious Case Reviews has demonstrated the important role that Social Housing Organisations have in the lives of those experiencing Hate Crime because of their vulnerability or perceived difference.
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Independent Custody Visitors Advanced Training Day
Volunteers from the East Midlands region who give up their time to visit police custody suites gathered in Leicestershire to share practice and to discuss the diverse issues presented by those in detention.
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Safeguarding Children in Early Years
East Riding have taken an innovative approach to providing Safeguarding Children training for their Early Years workforce.
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CIH Housing Conference
The CIH annual conference and exhibition is the flagship event in the UK housing calendar. It provides a unique opportunity for the whole of the housing sector – public, private and non-profit. AFTA Thought were excited to be invited to be a part of this year's event, organised by Ocean Media.

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Presentation Skills Training
When Merseyside Probation Trust were looking for a new way to enhance the motivational skills of their accredited programme tutors they turned to AFTA Thought to offer a creative solution.
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Care and Supervision Proceedings
Concern about court appearances associated with Care and Supervision Proceedings can deter social work students from choosing to work in children's services.
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CMA CGM Diversity Training
AFTA Thought are delighted to have started working with new client CMA CGM, one of the world's largest shipping organisations.
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Safeguarding with Clinical Psychology Students
The opportunity to explore safeguarding issues with students as a part of their process of professional qualification is welcome.
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Helena Partnerships
AFTA Thought are pleased to have started a new working relationship with Helena Partnerships.
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Social Housing Reform
AFTA Thought contributed to Liverpool's consultation process about Social Housing Reform by creating and facilitating specifically written scenarios that brought the local issues to life.
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Customer Service Excellence Standard

The Customer Service Excellence (CSE) Standard, developed to replace the Charter Mark, lies at the heart of a Government strategy to provide ‘efficient, effective, excellent, equitable and empowering’ public services.

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Mental Health Act Managers Hearings
How do you ensure that Hospital Managers are being consistent with each other and clear about their powers of discharge under the Mental Health Act?
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Induction Training

Following on from our successful pilot programme, AFTA Thought are pleased to have begun to deliver training in this exciting new area of work.

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Mental Capacity Act and the Mental Health Act
Are your staff clear when they should be following the Mental Capacity Act and when they should be following the Mental Health Act? If someone under your care is being detained do you have the correct legal authority?
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Barnet Disability Hate Crime Conference

The London Borough of Barnet invited AFTA Thought to deliver our work exploring Hate Crime with a particular focus on when targeting is because of a person's real or perceived disability or mental health issue.

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British Heart Foundation and Catch On
AFTA Thought are delighted to have begun a new working relationship with Catch On, specialists in developing transformational leadership to support quality and innovation in health care.
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MCA, DOLS, Housing and Safeguarding
The Mental Capacity Act (2005) has been in effect for 4 years now but the need for awareness events is still clear to see.
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Induction Training - City West Housing
AFTA Thought are pleased to announce that we have delivered the first pilot of what we hope will become a fast growing area of our work.
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Safeguarding Children in Early Years and Schools
The recent Serious Case Review into the abuse of children at Little Ted's nursery in Plymouth once again highlights the potential for any setting to create the conditions in which perpetrators find opportunities to abuse.
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Safeguarding Vulnerable Tenants
AFTA Thought's Managing Director, Mary Austin, writes about the responsibilities of workers in the housing sector to ensure the safety of vulnerable adults in 24 Housing Magazine.
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Managing Challenging Behaviour
AFTA Thought have recognised an increase in the number of requests to provide our training packages around Managing Challenging Behaviour and Physical Intervention.
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Equality Act 2010
As of October 2010 the new Equality Act is law, replacing the Race Relations Act 1976 and the Disability Discrimination Act 1976.
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Dementia Care - BUPA

800,000 people in the UK live with dementia. A third of them live in care homes. This month AFTA Thought are working alongside BUPA at a series of events designed to develop the dementia care practice in their care homes.

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AFTA Thought Win Investors In People Silver Award
AFTA Thought are delighted to announce that they have achieved Investors in People Silver status.
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Coproduction and Procure Plus

Our forthcoming work includes another opportunity to look at the potential of applying the principles of Coproduction to social care - and our first time working with Procure Plus.

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June Updates - Personalisation and Safeguarding Children in Early Years
AFTA Thought have continued to be busy throughout the month of June delivering a diverse programme of work that has included Personalisation in social care, and Safeguarding Children in Early Years provision.
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Social Housing Safeguarding
AFTA Thought are pleased to announce that we have begun to deliver our half day conference model for staff in social housing.
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Dementia Awareness Training
Dementia currently affects 700,000 people in the UK, with that number set to increase as the population gets older.
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Person Centred Plans for Older People
The continuing roll out of the Personalisation Agenda has seen the extension of Person Centred Plans for older people.
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Disability Hate Crime

AFTA Thought are developing a new training model to raise awareness of the impact of disability Hate Crime.

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Safeguarding Children and Adults in Social Housing
In response to recent events AFTA Thought have begun to take enquiries from housing organisations who are keen to raise their awareness of safeguarding issues for children and adults.
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AFTA Thought Renew IIP Status & Go For NTA Award
AFTA Thought are pleased to announce that we have successfully renewed our Investors in People status.
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International Personalisation Conference

2000 delegates, 100 exhibitors, 50 workshops as well as high profile speakers, this year's International Big Event was In Control's biggest event yet.

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Dignity in Care Action Day
25th February 2010 is Dignity Action Day. The aim is to give everyone the opportunity to contribute to upholding people's rights to dignity and provide a truly memorable day for people receiving care.
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Bullying and Harassment
Stress related illness caused by bullying and harassment leads to the loss of more than 19 million working days each year and has direct financial and operational impact on UK businesses.
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Challenging Perceptions in Housing
For the first time, Liverpool City Council and Liverpool First will be holding a Housing Conference that reflects all of the Equalities strands.
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Working with Wolverhampton Homes for Equality & Diversity
Wolverhampton Homes have invited us to deliver staff training events on Equality and Diversity, as part of their ongoing commitment to their tenants and staff.
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Could Co-production be the future of health and social care?
Could Co-production be the future of health and social care? Working with North West Joint Improvement Partnership, we'll be exploring this at a conference for Local Authority leaders in February.
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