- Specific for staff and families working within the following sectors
- Education, Mental health, Social and care staff, learning disabilities, Autistic people, and people living with dementia.
- These standards are mandatory when training with people with mental Health conditions, learning disabilities, autistic people and people living with dementia.
- Protect people’s fundamental human rights and promote person centred, best interest and therapeutic approaches to supporting people when they are distressed.
- Improve the life of those being restrained and those supporting them.
- Reduce reliance on restrictive practises by promoting positive culture and practise that focuses on prevention de-escalation and reflective practise.
- Increase understanding of the root causes of behaviour and recognition that many behaviours are the result of distress due to unmet needs.
- Where required, focus on the safest and most dignified use of restrictive interventions including physical restraint.
(Restraint Reduction Network standards)
Conflict Resolution and positive Handling Training
This training is applied
- Across Education, Health and Social Care
- Children and adult services
- UK and internationally.
- Including people with mental Health conditions, Dementia, Learning Disabilities, and Autistic people.
Level 1 CPD accredited course 2 days
This course is suitable for low-risk environments, Elderly services , children services.
- Course content
- Conflict Resolution training.
- De-escalation and crisis intervention skills, verbal and none verbal strategies, understanding strategies.
- Low level breakaway techniques.
- Low level positive handling strategies this will cover going to seated, and to knees.
- Techniques to de-escalate holds and safely move away.
- Post Incident Analysis reporting and recording.
- Staff Service user support following incidents.
Cost of course – £160 -person
Course numbers – Minimum numbers x 12
Level 1 CPD accredited Train the Trainer course 5 days
This will enable staff to deliver the above course to their own staff.
- Conflict Resolution.
- Low Level breakaway techniques.
- Low level positive handling strategies this will cover going to seated and to knees.
- Techniques to de-escalate holds and move away safely.
- Post incident analysis reporting recording.
- Staff service support following incidents.
Cost of course – £1400 per person
Course numbers – Minimum numbers x 12
Level 2 positive Handling training 5 days
This course is suitable for staff working with people with Mental Health conditions, Dementia, Learning disabilities, and Autistic people.
- Conflict Resolution Training and UK Skills framework, Mental Health capacity Act.
- Protecting peoples fundamental Human rights.
- Breakaway Techniques level 2
- Positive Handling strategies level 2
- Roles of staff when intervening
- Positive holding Interventions whilst Standing, seated position, and kneeling.
- The dangers of positional Asphyxia.
- On the floor situations ensuring service user care at all times.
- Separating 2 aggressors who may be fighting, both standing, and on the floor.
- Negotiating stairs and doorways, exiting and entering vehicles.
- Post incident analysis
- Reporting and recording
- Staff service user support following incidents.
Cost of course – £400 per person
Course numbers – Minimum numbers x 12
Cost of Train the Trainers course to deliver the above will be £2970 per person
Course numbers – Minimum numbers x 12
Level 3 CPD accredited 5 days training
This course is only accessible for staff who have completed levels 1 and 2.
This course is for staff working in High-Risk areas and covers the following
- Roles and responsibilities of a 3-person team.
- Seclusion room entry and exits.
- Danger when confronted with weapons both blunt and sharp.
- N.B. when covering weapons first option will be to escape to safety at all times.
Cost of course – £240 per person
Course numbers – Minimum numbers x 12
Cost of Train the Trainers course to deliver the above will be – £990 per person
Course numbers – Minimum numbers x 12
