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.
How to NOT end up on Panorama; decision making as culture.
Drawing on the Korean Air 8509 crash and care scandals like Winterbourne View, the post argues that everyday decisions harden into culture, and that teams must speak up and slow down.
Positive Behaviour Trainer Course for Services caring for People with Learning Disabilities and Complex Needs
A train-the-trainer course for services supporting people with learning disabilities and complex needs. It maps the flashpoints staff meet, including pain and delirium, intimate care, medication refusal and clashes between residents.
Conflict Management Trainer Course – December 2019
A five-day Vistelar train-the-trainer course coming to the UK, covering non-escalation, de-escalation and crisis intervention through the Six Cs, with scenario practice and video review but no physical control tactics.
Challenging Behaviour in Elderly Dementia Care: Bathing without the Bruises
Drawing on the Bathing Without a Battle programme, the post asks what being clean really means to each resident, then covers communication, flexibility over rigid policies and the three drivers of resistance.
Lone Worker Course “benefitted my ability to face certain situations”
A Peterborough City Council professional calls the two-day lone worker course the best training she has had. The post covers employers’ duties, including assessing risk, involving workers and providing training and supervision.
Making Decisions about Restraint in Dementia and Elderly Care
This Social Care Institute for Excellence video, used on Dynamis courses to prompt discussion, weighs the duty to care against protection so that restraint is minimised and residents keep safety and dignity.
Creative approaches to understanding behaviour in Dementia Care
Dementia courses often show the clip discussed here, where imagination and a willingness to see the situation from the person’s point of view avoid distress and restraint when escorting people with dementia.
Workshop for Parents: “tools to protect my child”
Parents of children with complex needs attended a Knowsley workshop run for a local authority social work team, asking a specialist about self-injury, harm to other children and harm to carers. Feedback was positive.