Chaos, Control, Then Cuff: Lessons from Three Days of Functional Skills for PPST and PMVA Trainers
Training the Messy Middle: What Functional Training Reveals About Skills Under Pressure Functional Tactics Training is what most physical-skills training should be but rarely is. It is the question of how to train a learner for the messy middle of a confrontation, not the clean start or the polished end. Training the Messy Middle: What […]
Report – Responding to Behaviours of Concern in Irish Schools
Behaviours of concern are no longer isolated incidents in Irish schools. For many educators, exposure to verbal and physical aggression, supporting children in acute distress, and responding to crisis situations has become a recurring — and often under-acknowledged — part of the job. Responding to Behaviours of Concern and Crises in Irish Schools – Learning […]
How to NOT end up on Panorama; decision making as culture.
Over time, decision-making becomes culture. 💡 If more team-members spoke up, more effectively and more often, how many disasters, scandals and failures could be averted? I was asked recently to help a team whose workplace ended up looking like a disaster-zone, because of the failure of the team – collectively – to make the right decision […]
Is Officer Safety Training broken? If so, is there a way to fix it?
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/officer-safety-training-broken-so-can-we-fix-gerard-o-dea/ THE WHAT-WE-TEACH PROBLEM Early in my career, I was escorted into a room at a national-level agency and shown a single, security-restricted copy of the ‘Self-Defence’ training programme which was being taught to at-risk staff. My sense of anticipation before opening that document caused my heart to race. You can only imagine my disappointment, […]
Feedback on Distressed Behaviour In Dementia Care
How to Stay Safe and Keep your Clients Safe when working with Distressed Behaviours Our client for this ongoing training Safe Caring support package is a mid-sized care provider based in the south of England. The organisation has multiple sites and supports individuals facing the challenges of living with dementia day-to-day, offering reassurance, support and […]
Care Home Manager feedback: excellent and professional
“Trainer was excellent and professional and made the course enjoyable – was presented very well for all staff. Extremely likely to recommend to any colleagues looking for this training” –> Home Manager (RMN), Silverdale Nursing Home, October 2018 Our contextualised and scenario-based training programme is highly rated and regarded, and we rolled it out with […]
Making Decisions about Restraint in Dementia and Elderly Care
Making Decisions about Restraint with Older People in Care This is a video produced by the social care institute for excellence about restraint with older people in care services, which we use regularly on our courses to prompt discussion and questions, elicit opinions and get the conversation started. Restraining someone can stop them living 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 […]
Restraint Training: Control Phase and Restraint Phase Differences
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