A webinar provides the chance to watch a pre-recorded training session and ask any questions.
If you are interested in booking a place for this course, please complete the online booking form. You will then be contacted to discuss availability.
Background Information
Self-neglect is a range of behaviours linked to the lack of self-care. These can include the refusal or failure to eat, dress and/or take medication. It can also include neglecting personal hygiene, healthcare and living in squalid accommodation. Hoarding is the persistent difficulty in discarding or parting with personal possessions, even those of apparently useless or limited value, due to strong urges to save items, distress, and/or indecision associated with discarding. Hoarding is a very misunderstood and complex issue.
Course Aims and Objectives
This course aims to raise awareness of the Oldham Safeguarding’s Self-Neglect Policy, Procedures and Guidance, Responding to Hoarding Guidance, and Self-Neglect Toolkit and to provide learning opportunities to apply the guidance and toolkit in practice. By the end of the session participants will have had the opportunity to:
- Familiarise themselves with the strategy & guidance and the toolkit
- Increase their knowledge related to self-neglect and hoarding
- Develop the ability to identify and act on concerns about adult self-neglect and hoarding when there are children/young people in the household
- Increase awareness of safeguarding responsibilities and processes
- Increase awareness of how, where and when to access support and advice
- Explore legislative frameworks, tools, models and ways of working to support people who self-neglect and/or have hoarding disorders.
Time/Date/Venue
12:30-16:00, 8 July 2026, via Microsoft Teams