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 […]
Workshop for Parents: “tools to protect my child”
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 needs at home. The workshop gives parents a chance to ask a use-of-force, de-escalation and physical interventions specialist about the […]
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. […]
Conflict Management in Edinburgh -based Community Charity
We have been providing Conflict Management in Edinburgh for a national provider of homelessness outreach and support services to help their staff to manage the sometimes difficult, distressed or dangerous behaviour they encounter when working with their service users. The video below describes some of the conflict management strategies that we worked on with the […]
Safe Holding Training – Manage Distress – Scotland
Safe Holding Training to deal with Distressed Behaviour with Older People in Care Gerard O’Dea our Director of Training was recently asked to provide an opinion on how care homes in Scotland can deal with the issues of distressed, difficult or dangerous behaviours when caring for older people in their services, sometimes known as Safe […]
Retail Security Risks and Training in Personal Safety
I read with interest this appalling (but familiar) story about a female security guard being stabbed with a syringe in a Sainsbury’s in Kent. http://www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/news/security-guard-stabbed-in-sainsburys-59658/ It seems that the security guard confronted the drug-taking subject as he attempted to steal a bottle of whiskey from the supermarket shelves and make off with it outside the […]
National Personal Safety Day – Lone Working Book from Dynamis
Lone Working Personal Safety – A guidebook for health and social care workers will give you practical and largely unexplored personal safety advice which will inform and enhance how you make decisions. It will also widen the discussions you have within your team about how you as a group can improve your personal safety systems. […]
Train to Become a Personal Safety Adviser this October?
Feedback on our trainer-qualification courses has been so strong that this year we are running another self-protection trainer certification in October. Candidates have been raving about how much they learned and the enthusiasm they gained from working on our last instructor course, that we have been asked to run another one in 2015 and the dates […]