Your Breakaway Training Day needs to have LOTS of practice time

A Breakaway training day from Dynamis is designed to enable Public-Facing staff faced with the imminent threat of violence or a violent assault with the appropriate attitudes and tactics for personal safety. If danger can not be avoided any other way, staff should breakaway or disengage from violence and move towards safety using appropriate personal […]
NHS Breakaway Training – Series Part 3

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Feedback for Managing Child-to-Parent Violence 2019
Child-to-Parent Violence has been called ‘the last taboo’ – we have been working with the National Association of Therapeutic Parents to help Foster Carers and Adoptive Parents (and others) with this issue across the UK since 2017. Foster Carers and Parents Physical Interventions Workshop. Our course Managing Violent Behaviour in the Home Context, for Foster […]
Fostering: Vicarious Liability and Failure to Train
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Lone Worker Course “benefitted my ability to face certain situations”

Feedback on our Lone Worker Personal Safety Training “Thank you again for such an informative and practical couple of days learning about working alone in safety, which I feel has really benefited my learning and ability to face certain situations. I really feel it is the best training I have ever had and I hope […]
Feedback on Personal Safety for staff working in Learning Disabilities
“Thought it was really interesting, with very simple, quick and easy techniques which can be used at work. They are easy to remember too! It was a very professional experience and I learned a lot from it. The theory side helped me understand more about regulations and what is in place, this was very useful. […]
Screech Alarms and Lone Worker Protection
Lone Worker Protection and the Screech Alarm – Beware Bystander Apathy! Using a personal safety “screech”-type alarm might be useful as part of an overall escape strategy in Lone Worker Protection, but it shouldn’t be a psychological crutch. What is the real utility of the siren on a screech alarm? to tell people that you […]
Lone Worker Safety Device – could you use yours?

Lone Worker Safety Device: An Analysis We met a training participant some years ago who described how she expected to use her Lone Worker Safety Device: “Well first, I would hopefully have it ready if I thought anything bad was going to happen. I mean, I am supposed to have it in my hand already […]
Breakaway Training: Judges Comments in Dementia Care Assault Case
Breakaway Training mentioned in Dementia Care Home Assault Case A 75-year-old resident in a care home suffered from dementia and since arriving at the home four months before the assault, he had committed 13 acts of aggression and at least 5 attempts at serious acts of aggression, including trying to strangle one of the residents. […]
The potential for actual management of aggression
The POTENTIAL for ACTUAL MANAGEMENT of AGGRESSION Twice in this article from the Herald newspaper members of staff at a facility in Ireland mention the specific training system that they are trained in, presumably for their own personal safety, for the control of violent clients they have in their care and for the protection of others – MAPA […]