Supporting People with a Learning Disability around Self-Harm for Social Care Staff, 18 March 2027

Supporting People with a Learning Disability, Autism or both around Self-Harm

 

Date: 18 March 2027

Time: 9.30am-1pm

Cost:

• £75 (ARC Members)

• £95 (non-Members)

Reduced rate for booking both the Self-Harm and Self-Neglect workshops – see costs below. 

People with learning disabilities are more likely to self-harm and self-neglect than the general population. Since the Care Act 2014 awareness has grown of self-neglect as a central safeguarding issue for social care services. It is being reported to ARC as an increasing concern with members seeing rises in the number of people who self-harm, combined with staff lacking the confidence and skills to deal with the issue.

This workshop is now being offered as an online workshop, delivered via the Zoom platform. It is designed to raise awareness of self-harm in those with a learning disability, and looks at how to intervene and support those at risk.

There is a combination of presentation, videoed interviews, personal reflection, small group work, and skills development; it will include assignments before, during and after the webinar element.

The workshop is suitable for all front-line staff and managers who work with those who may be vulnerable to self-harm.

 

Self-harm and People with Learning Disabilities

This session draws on the research project ‘Hidden Pain – Self-Harm and People with Learning Disabilities’ which was jointly conducted by Self injury Support (formerly Bristol Crisis Service for Women) and the Norah Fry Research Centre at the University of Bristol, and from interviews with people with learning disabilities who self-harm.

By the end of this session, learners will:

• Understand what self-harm is
• Understand the different types of self-harm/self injury
• Understand the reasons for self-harm
• Have developed appropriate responses to self-harm
• Be able to effectively communicate with people who self-harm
• Understand identification and prevention of self-harm
• Have developed methods of self-management
• Understand a range of top tips

 

Cost:

• £75 (ARC Members)

• £95 (non-Members)

If you are also interested in attending the half-day Self-Neglect workshop on 18 March 2027, you can purchase both courses for a combined cost of £110 (ARC Members) or £130 (non-Members) per person.

How to book your place

• Download and complete the ARC-England-Workshop-Booking-form-2026
• Email it to bookings@arcuk.org.uk
• We will confirm your booking and invoice your organisation.

**The workshop will only go ahead if the minimum number of places are filled