Restraint Reduction Trainer Development
This post is about conflict management, personal safety and Dynamis training. It is an excerpt from our 18-page case study about how we achieved significant restraint reduction outcomes with a Restraint Reduction Trainer Development programme. To read the full case study, please visit our Restraint Reduction page. The results of our recent Restraint Reduction Trainer […]
Positive Behaviour Trainer Course for Services caring for People with Learning Disabilities and Complex Needs
This post is about conflict management, personal safety and Dynamis training. Vulnerable clients and behaviours of concern The trainer programme for this learning disabilities service builds a process within which we can create a change of heart in your staff teams, so that they can keep everyone safe even as they encounter difficult, distressed or […]
Classroom Management for SEND Restraint Reduction
Katie Dill, a special education teacher from Winnebago School District in Northern Illinois, knows the gap well: teachers are expected to manage challenging behaviour, but rarely shown how. Here she explains how a step-by-step conflict management approach transformed her classroom — reducing restraint and building a safer, calmer learning environment for SEND students. The Gap: […]
Workshop for Parents: “tools to protect my child”
Bringing professional de-escalation skills into the family home This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. Gerard is just back from a trip to Liverpool, where he was commissioned by a local authority social work team to give assistance to a group of parents who look after their children with complex […]
Feedback on Personal Safety for staff working in Learning Disabilities
This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. 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 […]
Training for Restraint:: Things to avoid doing #4
Restraint training dangers are easiest to see in the photographs trainers rarely show. The accompanying images in this post show something that has been referred to as a “Therapeutic Floor Hold” in some training materials. It constitutes, in our view, inappropriate restraint. The (usually) vulnerable person being restrained is first taken to the floor — […]
Restraint Training: Unsafe Handling caused death of resident and £57,000 fine
This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. A South Lanarkshire care home provider was heavily fined after an elderly resident died after breaking her neck in a fall. At Hamilton Sheriff Court, BUPA Care Homes (Carrick) Ltd was fined £57,000 after pleading guilty to a breach of Section 3 of […]
Protect Staff from Spitting: Worker almost blinded and Care Service fined £110,000
Spitting risk: a care worker left with 20% vision A 32-year-old care worker had to get a corneal transplant in her eye after a spitting incident at Low Moor Resource Centre in Bradford left her with only 20% vision in the eye. She has been told there is a high risk the transplant may leave […]
Care worker ʻnight of terrorʼ with patient ‘like a horror film’
A care worker barricaded herself into a box room for nine hours, making frantic phone calls to her bosses while a disturbed patient tried to kick the door down. Her bosses told her to stay put until the morning shift arrived. When the door finally opened, she was attacked for a second time. “Mrs Morgan’s […]
Restraint Training: Focussed on Tasks, not People ?
A Question of Focus Are our care staff giving more focus to the list of tasks and jobs to be done while on shift in their often overworked and under-resourced facilities, or are they focussed entirely on the people they are caring for? In terms of restraint, we see both subtle and grotesque versions […]