Training for Restraint:: Things to avoid doing #1

Training for Restraint:: Things to avoid doing #1

This image was first published in an article about the types of physical restraint practices being carried out on children in schools in the USA.   There are a large number of things in this ‘procedure’ which are likely to fail during a “floor restraint” intervention and for that reason it is worth drawing out the

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Safe Holding Training – Manage Distress – Scotland

Safe Holding Training to deal with Distressed Behaviour with Older People in Care Gerard O’Dea our Director of Training was recently asked to provide an opinion on how care homes in Scotland can deal with the issues of distressed, difficult or dangerous behaviours when caring for older people in their services, sometimes known as Safe

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National Personal Safety Day - Lone Working Book from Dynamis

Lone Social Worker Abducted and Abused

Lone Worker Abducted – is your training sufficient? Lone Worker Training may have helped a vulnerable social worker who was abducted and attacked by youths.  Three teenagers who abducted and attacked a trainee social worker on a home visit have been jailed for a total of five years.  Holly Loudoun, 23, was forced to her knees and hit

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Restraint Training: Control Phase and Restraint Phase Differences 3

Restraint Training: Control Phase and Restraint Phase Differences

In evidence for the Sean Rigg enquiry, an ACPO expert on Self-Defence Control and Arrest procedures described his opinion of the stages involved in securing an adult-sized subject who is violent and resisting arrest.      He talks about two phases of an altercation with a subtle distinction between them.  Firstly the  “control” phase , followed by the  “restraint”

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VIDEO: Positive Handling in Schools

Positive Handling Schools Learn Effective Restraint with Children Positive Handling Schools come to us when they are dealing with challenging behaviours to use our experience to help them to effectively and appropriately manage disruptive, risky or extreme situations using appropriate Positive Handling strategies. Our Positive Handling training reduces injury risk, improves inspection compliance and safeguards staff, children

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