At today’s webinar at King's launching a Multiple Exclusion Homelessness: Practitioner Safeguarding Toolkit, over 280 participants joined Bruno Ornelas and Andy Meakin for an introduction to using the Toolkit, which was developed as a collaboration by practitioners, researchers, safeguarding and legal experts, and people with lived experience.

The webinar was an opportunity to discuss how to overcome the attitudes, policies and structures that can be barriers to safeguarding and supporting this highly marginalised population.

Participant feedback included: ‘Looks brilliant’; ‘Excited to use it’; ‘Will certainly change our practice’; ‘We could take this to our Safeguarding Adults Board to implement’; ‘Plan on meeting with my team to see how we can implement this’; ‘Will be signposting people to it and linking to it in the training I provide’; ‘I am going to share the Toolkit widely with colleagues and managers’; and, ‘The toolkit will be a life saver.’

• Download the Toolkit.
• Download the slides from today's webinar.

Related research at King's

Bruno Ornelas, Rough Sleeping Adviser at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, is a researcher on the ongoing study at the NIHR Health and Social Care Workforce Research Unit, Use of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 with people experiencing multiple exclusion homelessness in England, and he was on the research team for the earlier Unit study (final report forthcoming) focusing on safeguarding, homelessness and self-neglect.

Next time

The next event in the Homelessness series, within the NIHR Health and Social Care Workforce Research Unit Homelessness Research Programme at King's, will share A data-driven approach to inform service implementation for people experiencing homelessness. It takes place online on Thursday 14 December 2023, 10:00 to 11:00.

Header image: front cover of the toolkit