Restraint with children: prevention, dignity, and the duty to get it right
Restraint with a child is serious even when it is lawful and necessary. The post treats it as the end of a longer chain, covering prevention, de-escalation, child-centred technique, aftercare and the family’s trust.
Report – Managing Behaviours of Concern and Workplace Risk in UK Schools
A thematic review of behaviours of concern and workplace risk in UK schools, based on training-needs data from 373 schools and over 8,000 staff. It identifies patterns in leadership, training and coordination across services.
Report – Responding to Behaviours of Concern in Irish Schools
Evidence from over 2,600 staff across 124 schools underpins a Dynamis report describing how often behaviours of concern arise, their impact, and where training, leadership, legal clarity and coordination already help.
Positive handling for schools: safety, dignity and confidence when children are in distress
Positive handling in schools treated as more than holds and techniques. It covers prevention, relational de-escalation, last-resort intervention, aftercare, recording and honest communication with families, with restraint reduction as the aim.
Managing aggressive patients in the UAE
Reflections from a training trip to the UAE, including school workshops on demand avoidance, attention needing and runners, and an emergency doctor whom colleagues call for angry, unpredictable patients because she can de-escalate them.
Classroom Management for SEND Restraint Reduction
A special education teacher describes being told to manage challenging behaviour but rarely shown how. She explains how a step-by-step conflict management approach reduced restraint in her classroom and made more room for teaching.
Visit to Schools in Ireland to help with Positive Handling Issues
Dynamis delivered positive handling training to schools in Ireland working with special-needs pupils in mainstream settings. The post notes the lack of departmental guidance, quotes a principal’s feedback and links to a course video.
Positive Handling for Special Needs School and Children with Learning Disabilities – feedback
Feedback from a series of sessions at a London special needs school. After a site visit, training was shaped around early non-physical intervention, with Makaton gestures, reasonable force and adapted communication for non-verbal children.
More than 15 Schools in UAE introduced to Dynamis Positive Handling
Around 150 staff from more than 15 schools in Abu Dhabi and Dubai trained in Positive Handling, built around UAE labour law, the penal code on use of force, and ADEC requirements.
One Voice – Behaviour Management Tip for Schools
Consistency across a staff team matters more than any single behaviour policy. The post explains the One Voice principle, the shared language it needs, and the dignity and respect behind the school behaviour course.