Chaos, Control then Resolution: 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 physical skills is easy […]
Protection from coughing and spitting assaults
Coughing and Spitting Assaults: How to Protect Yourself From Intentional Coughing and Spitting This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. As a company deeply involved in personal safety training, we watch carefully when new trends emerge in personal safety risk. Since early March 2020 it has become increasingly common to […]
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 across the UK since 2017. Our course Managing Violent Behaviour in the Home Context can be tailored to the needs of a specific child or family. We cover […]
Fostering: Vicarious Liability and Failure to Train
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Workshop for Parents: “tools to protect my child”
Bringing professional de-escalation skills into the family home This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. 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 […]
Screech Alarms and Lone Worker Protection
What Can a Screech Alarm Actually Do? This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. Using a personal safety “screech”-type alarm might be useful as part of an overall escape strategy in Lone Worker Protection. But it shouldn’t be a psychological crutch. What is the real utility of the siren on […]
Breakaway Training: Judges Comments in Dementia Care Assault Case
Breakaway Training: A Judge’s Warning from a Dementia Care Case This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. A 75-year-old resident in a care home suffered from dementia. In just four months since arriving, he had committed 13 acts of aggression and at least 5 attempts at serious acts of aggression […]
Training Lone Workers: Who should go on the visit?
Training Lone Workers: Who Should Go on the Visit? This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. Training lone workers sometimes means making sure they carefully decide whether a visit should go ahead — and how many people should attend. Sometimes, client history means no visit at all. In a rough-cut […]
Ambulance Staff Personal Safety: a cautionary tale
This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. Several years ago I was fortunate to be asked to present at a national conference for trainers in the prevention and management of violence and aggression. While I was there, I had the great privilege to hear this talk by “the most violently […]
Lone Social Worker Abducted and Abused
This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. Three teenagers who abducted and attacked a trainee social worker on a home visit have been jailed for a total of five years. The case raises urgent questions about whether lone worker safety training is keeping pace with the risks faced by frontline […]