A vital resource for staff working in a range of settings, Drawing the Line provides a half-day participative workshop which explores issues around the importance of maintaining boundaries in professional relationships in order to build the capacity for good practice. The workshop aims to help staff groups develop a shared consensus about where to draw the line in a range of situations and what actions to take if those lines are crossed. Key features: Powerful workshop which puts staff ‘in the shoes’ of the service user; addresses a broad range of boundary crossings; can be used to develop policies and guidelines for particular settings, client groups or areas of practice. Contents include: ·    Introduction ·    The Evidence Base regarding boundary violations and their effects ·    The Workshop: ·    Getting your house in order ·    Which side of the line? ·    Why is this an issue? ·    Whistleblowing ·    How does this apply to me, my work group and my own profession? This pack contains: Notes for the trainer; evidence base; slide templates; heading cards and item cards for use in the workshop, also provided on accompanying CD-Rom for printing Vital information for: Doctors, mental health professionals, staff working in social care settings, personal assistants and those working with families in their own homes or in community settings.

The workshop invites participants to put themselves in the shoes of aservice user and to think more carefully about how to manageprofessional relationships in small or closed communities and to manageintimate encounters without treading on a person's sensitivities.

The supplementary activities in this pack focus on participants' ownpractices and on the culture of their work settings and organisations.The workshop also invites participants to consider the role of policiesand guidelines in preventing professional boundary violations,including the application of safeguarding children and safeguardingadults protocols to these situations.

The pack contains: 
* background information outlining the extent and nature of professional boundary violation and its consequences
* detailed notes on how to conduct the training
* half-day training course materials consisting of five sessions
* materials for discussion and PowerPoint slides.