Legal Implications of Using Physical Intervention in Schools
Legal Implications of Using Physical Intervention in Schools Physical intervention refers to the use of physical force to restrain or control a student’s behavior. It is a measure that is generally considered a last resort and should be used only when all other options have been exhausted, and the situation requires it. In today’s educational […]
Positive Handling in Cumbria
Positive Handling in Cumbria and the North West: additions to our team! Did you know that we provide training in Positive Handling in Cumbria and the North West? Probably not! The truth is that our Managing Director (and one of our principal trainers), with exceptional experience of working with school staff on some of the […]
Restraint Reduction Training Now Added to our Training Offering
A system which has helped reduce restraints from 76 in a 12 month period to just 7, increased attendance to 86.5% in a school for Looked After Children where previous attendance of individual students was often less than 10% and totally eliminated the need for exclusion.* RESTRAINT REDUCTION TRAINING with ZEB GLOVER All school settings should aim […]
Can you send a trainer to do an hour with the staff?
THE PROBLEM OF SHORT-DURATION COURSES AND THE ISSUE OF CREATING “MORE QUESTIONS” Can you send us a trainer, to do an hour of training? I recently spent a full day at one of the biggest Sixth-Form colleges in the UK, who have 3,700 students on their rolls! The assembled team – few in number – […]
Positive Handling for Schools in Ireland – Course Feedback
Restraint Interventions and Handling for Schools in Ireland – Feedback from 2018 courses. Our team visited a number of schools in Ireland at the end of August to deliver tailored and customised Positive Handling training, localised for the legal issues and considerations of Irish class teachers and special needs assistants. Here are a selection of […]
Positive Handling in London
Positive Handling in London Dynamis Training has been providing highly popular, tailored and appropriate training courses for Positive Handling in London for several years. Our trainers regularly visit Newham, and travel from Hackney to Haringey, or from Bromley to Brent. We have helped teachers to manage difficult, distressed or dangerous behaviour everywhere from Richmond to […]
Dealing with Intimidating Parents – drunk mum banned from school
Drunk Mum Banned From School After Biting A Teacher A mum who bit her child’s teacher after arriving at the school drunk has been given a restraining order banning her from the school grounds. Kelly Kociela, 32, from Bristol, tried to push her way into Filton Avenue Junior and Infant School, in Horfield, Bristol at around 6pm […]
Is it okay to lift and carry a child during positive handling interventions?
Question: Is it okay to lift and carry a child who is being restrained from one location to another? positivehandling.atomicdev.xyz/ RISKS OF LIFTING AND CARRYING A CHILD DURING A PHYSICAL INTERVENTION There are many issues to be considered as the risks are very significant, for example: – violence injury to staff during a lift or […]
Engaging successfully with Concerned Parents
Gerard O’Dea, Director of Training at Dynamis discusses issues around positive handling and separation in the morning, where communication with parents is key and pre-planning some of the trickier aspects of any intervention that a member of staff would make is important. He also introduces a new course from Dynamis, based on the communication methodology […]
Teachers headbutted and bitten by children as young as five.
