Personalised approach to risk: learning event 9

Risk assessment, past, present, and future: Ensuring equity, advocacy, and cultural change in risk assessment for self-harm and suicide

Thursday 29 January 2026

On this page:

• Recording of the session
• Links and resources
  • Slides
  • Research
  • Neurodiverse Connection resources

Recording of the session

Equity, advocacy, and cultural change in risk assessment for self-harm and suicide

At this learning event, we discussed experiences of risk assessment, the current programme of transformation work, and the future of relational risk assessments.

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Links and resources

Slides

• Culture of Care programme website
• Culture of Care standards for mental health inpatient services

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Research

• Autistic SPACE: a novel framework for meeting the needs of autistic people in healthcare settings (British Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2023)
• The ‘double empathy problem’: Ten years on (Autism, 2022)

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Neurodiverse Connection resources

• Interactive toolkit: A practical approach to neurodiversity-affirming care and support
• Resources Library
  • Trauma responses in autistic people resource
  • Co-escalation and co-regulation resource
  • Supporting nervous system regulation in the workplace resource
  • Monotropism resource
• Guide to Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) and Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) for professionals, parents and caregivers
• Against Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) and Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA)
• NdC Journal
  • Beyond Mind: The Embodied Double Empathy Problem (blog by Kay Louise Aldred)
• Sign up to the NdC newsletter

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This work was completed as part of the Culture of Care Programme. The work was supported by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Greater Manchester Patient Safety Research Collaboration (GM PSRC) (Grant Reference Number NIHR204295). Leah Quinlivan is fully funded by the NIHR GM PSRC, Pauline Rivart was part funded by the NIHR GM PSRC, and Professor Nav Kapur is part funded by the NIHR GM PSRC.  The views expressed on this webpage are those of the authors and not necessarily those of NICE, NIHR, NHS, or the UK Department of Health and Social Care.