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Positive Handling in Education
This course prepares staff to support children and young people struggling with emotional regulation by understanding the biology behind behaviour. It aims to improve behaviour, strengthen relationships between students and staff, and build confidence in managing challenging behaviours, aggression, and violence.
Positive handling is taught as a last resort, focusing on safe holding techniques to prevent harm when de-escalation fails, helping pupils regain emotional control safely.
The course includes applying Positive Behaviour Support, using effective de-escalation techniques and therapeutic intervention and practising simple, low-level physical interventions tailored to workplace and service-user needs.
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• Understanding the law + Government Guidance
• Duty of Care
• Balancing Risk
• Reasonable Force in schools
• Time-out rooms, withdrawal, and screening/searching pupils
• De-escalation Techniques & Restraint Reduction
• Communication Strategies
• Positive Behaviour Support (PBS)
• Managing challenging behaviours
• Breakaway skills
• Instruction and practice of:
- Holding
- Escorting
- Guiding
- Handling techniques
- Low-level physical interventions
- Safe holding methods
- Seated Holds
• Specific Risk Management
- Handling smaller pupils
- Biting
- Hair-pulling
- Spitting
- Weapon handling
- Disengagement from altercations
• Reporting incident and allocations
- Understand relevant legislation, including DfE Guidance on 'The Use of Reasonable Force' and Section 93 of the Education & Inspection Act.
- Explore the different causes of behaviour
- Understand why correct communication is important
- Identify models of communication
- Use effective communication and de-escalation principles for positive handling in schools.
- Explore barriers to learning and state-dependent functioning.
- Understand the importance of ACE studies, protective factors, and resilience.
- Gain a clearer understanding of Positive Behaviour Support and Functional Assessment
- Highlight risks associated with physical restraint
- Learn to balance personal safety with duty of care for all involved
- Conduct risk assessments to minimise harm in high-risk incidents
- Instruction and practice of non-harmful control methods (e.g., prompting, guiding, holding)
- Instruction and practice of low-level, least-intrusive positive handling techniques
- Understand the important of record keeping and recording incidents.
- Reflect on the need to repair and rebuild relationships after incidents
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