Enabling Positive Risk (F2F)
This course introduces the concept of positive risk-taking, helping learners understand how to balance safety with independence while supporting individuals to make informed choices and maintain control over their lives.
Learning Outcomes
The Enabling Positive Risk course helps learners understand the role that risk-taking plays in everyday life and how it can support independence, confidence, and personal development. Participants will explore how risk is a natural part of daily living and why enabling individuals to make informed choices is an important aspect of person-centred care.
The course examines the importance of taking a person-centred approach to risk assessments, ensuring that individuals are actively involved in decisions that affect their lives. Learners will explore how to balance safety with the right of individuals to make choices, recognising that overly restrictive approaches can limit independence and quality of life.
Participants will also gain an understanding of the legal framework that underpins positive risk-taking, including legislation and guidance that supports individuals’ rights while ensuring appropriate safeguarding and duty of care. The training highlights how these frameworks guide professionals in making balanced and responsible decisions.
The session focuses on practical ways to support individuals to take risks safely, encouraging empowerment while identifying potential hazards and putting appropriate measures in place. Learners will consider how to work collaboratively with individuals, families, and colleagues to develop supportive risk management strategies.
The course also explores the concept of duty of care and how it applies to positive risk-taking, helping participants understand their responsibilities while promoting choice, dignity, and independence. By the end of the session, learners will feel more confident in supporting individuals to take positive risks in a way that respects their rights and promotes wellbeing.
By the end of this course, participants will understand the importance of positive risk-taking, apply person-centred approaches to risk assessments, understand the relevant legal framework, and support individuals to take risks while maintaining their duty of care.
- The importance of risk taking in everyday life
- The importance of a person-centred approach to risk assessments
- The legal framework
- Duty of care in relation to positive risk taking
- £45 / £55(LSCP Members)
- £75(Non-Members)
In order to attend any of these sessions a booking form needs to be completed (even for sessions ‘Free to Members’, as we need to account for room capacity and a fair distribution of free places among organisations).