Fostering: Vicarious Liability and Failure to Train
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Breakaway Training: Judges Comments in Dementia Care Assault Case
Breakaway Training mentioned in Dementia Care Home Assault Case A 75-year-old resident in a care home suffered from dementia and since arriving at the home four months before the assault, he had committed 13 acts of aggression and at least 5 attempts at serious acts of aggression, including trying to strangle one of the residents. […]
Training Lone Workers: Who should go on the visit?
Training Lone Workers Sometimes means making sure that they carefully decide whether a visit should go ahead and how many people should go. Sometimes, client history means no visit. In a rough-cut from a recent course where we were Training Lone Workers, our Director of Training and expert on personal safety Gerard O’Dea describes the […]
Training for Restraint:: Things to avoid doing #4
The accompanying images in this post are of something that has been referred to as a ‘Therapeutic Floor Hold’ in some training materials. It consistutes, in our view, inappropriate restraint. The (usually) vulnerable person who is being restrained is first taken to the floor – often through the use of some kind of unbalancing […]
Training for Restraint:: Things to avoid doing #3
There are better and less-better Restraint Techniques The image accompanying this post was apparently taken in 1907 of the City of London Police learning or demonstrating restraint techniques. They are clearly wearing jackets which suggest that there may have been input from some Japanese martial arts into the restraint techniques they were learning at 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 […]
Restraint Training: Unsafe Handling caused death of resident and £57,000 fine
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 the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974, which led to the […]
Near Misses and Violence Risk Management in Restraint Training
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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 […]
Case Study: Foster Carers Training
Foster Carers Training in Managing Challenging Behaviours and Physical Intervention Foster Carers Training Project: a foster agency, contracted to the local authorities in its area, was receiving requests from its foster families to have training in the use of physical interventions. Families wanted clarity on the rules regarding this area and asked us for Foster […]