Westminster Council’s Rough Sleeping Team has launched a Blue Light Project to support staff working with vulnerable dependent drinkers.
This project will deliver Blue Light training for staff and disseminate best practice while working with this client group. The resources below can be downloaded to help your work with vulnerable dependent drinkers.
This video is of a touching story told by Jennie about her friend Ian who experienced homelessness and alcohol related illnesses.
Supporting family members to respond to change resistant drinkers
14 MB
This toolkit has been produced by Alcohol Change and Adfam and is useful for staff members working in housing. It provides information on understanding and supporting someone through detoxification, understanding liver function tests, how we can reduce harm and motivating someone to change their drinking.
How to use legal powers to safeguard highly vulnerable dependent drinkers in England and Wales
279 KB
Alcohol change UK’s have produced this useful document How to use legal powers to safeguard highly vulnerable dependent drinkers in England and Wales
The Safeguarding Adults Executive Boards’ 7 minute briefing
271 KB
The Safeguarding Adults Executive Boards’ 7 minute briefing: Ian’s story and the 4 learning points to be taken from this case
The Blue Light Manual
585kb
The Blue Light Manual sets out the key principles and contains a range of advice and tools for working with clients who are not in contact with services. The Blue Light training supports professionals in applying these principles and tools, and helps local areas set up the multi-partner forums and protocols needed to embed the programme