Local Government

For environmental health, licensing, revenues, parking and social work teams who meet the public on a visit or at a counter. Training built from those conversations, then used in the next one.

Councils meet people after every other door has closed

Held to the standard you enforce

Conflict at the counter and on visits

Teams carrying vacancies into visits

What the ombudsman asks you to show

Violence at work is a health and safety matter, not part of the job. The duty to control it belongs to the employer.

Health and safety law

Skills for counters, visits and calls

Officers leave able to open a doorstep visit, state the decision they came to deliver, and close the conversation before it follows them out. Counter teams rehearse the same conversation across a desk, with a queue behind it and no second officer nearby.

01 De-escalation at the counter

02 Dynamic risk assessment on arrival

03 Standing permission to withdraw

04 Check-ins that are actually made

05 Holding an unwelcome decision

06 Case notes built for scrutiny

07 Exit planning under pressure

08 What a manager does afterwards

How councils judge a provider

Trainers who ask what happens now

Scenarios drawn from your services

Sessions that fit shift patterns

Evidence we can hand to scrutiny

Consistency across directorates

Scenarios come from the services in the room. Trainers ask what happens on your visits before they teach.

SDT (Scenario-Driven Training)

How a programme starts in a council

We start with the services that meet the most people: environmental health, licensing, parking, revenues and social work. The first conversation is with the managers who read the reports.

01

We read the incident reports and the near misses that never became reports, then sit with team leaders from each service to find the conversation that keeps going wrong.

Diagnose

We read the incident reports and the near misses that never became reports, then sit with team leaders from each service to find the conversation that keeps going wrong.

02

Sessions run in the rooms your staff use, with scenarios drawn from licensing visits, benefits interviews, parking enforcement and a queue at the counter.

Train the teams

Sessions run in the rooms your staff use, with scenarios drawn from licensing visits, benefits interviews, parking enforcement and a queue at the counter.

03

Team leaders get a short briefing so the debrief after a difficult visit is theirs to run. Check-ins and escalation routes are tested in the weeks that follow.

Embed in the service

Team leaders get a short briefing so the debrief after a difficult visit is theirs to run. Check-ins and escalation routes are tested in the weeks that follow.

04

We look at what staff do differently rather than what they thought of the day: how a visit is opened, how often an officer withdraws, and what managers record afterwards.

Evaluate what changed

We look at what staff do differently rather than what they thought of the day: how a visit is opened, how often an officer withdraws, and what managers record afterwards.

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Local Government

Councils meet people after every other door has closed

Held to the standard you enforce

Conflict at the counter and on visits

Teams carrying vacancies into visits

What the ombudsman asks you to show

Violence at work is a health and safety matter, not part of the job. The duty to control it belongs to the employer.

Health and safety law

Skills for counters, visits and calls

01

De-escalation at the counter

02

Dynamic risk assessment on arrival

03

Standing permission to withdraw

04

Check-ins that are actually made

05

Holding an unwelcome decision

06

Case notes built for scrutiny

07

Exit planning under pressure

08

What a manager does afterwards

How councils judge a provider

Scenarios come from the services in the room. Trainers ask what happens on your visits before they teach.

How a programme starts in a council