Staff Wellbeing After Restrictive Interventions — What Schools Overlook | Positive Handling
After an incident the pupil gets a debrief and a plan review while the adult gets a form, and the post argues staff wellbeing belongs in the safety system, not as an afterthought.
Legal Implications of Using Physical Intervention in Schools
Physical intervention is a last resort, and schools must show it is lawful, safe and proportionate. Where staff have had no positive handling training, action against a teacher afterwards carries serious legal risk.
Positive Handling in Cumbria
The company trains in Cumbria and the North West because its managing director settled near Penrith in 2020. Feedback from a Keswick school describes the course as practical and thorough.
Restraint Reduction Training Now Added to our Training Offering
Restraint reduction training with Zeb Glover joins the offering, illustrated by a school where restraints fell from 76 to 7 in a year, attendance rose to 86.5% and exclusion was no longer needed.
Can you send a trainer to do an hour with the staff?
Dynamis argues against one-hour training sessions. Short courses leave staff with more questions and more hesitation, while a full day gives a team the knowledge to make professional decisions under pressure.
Positive Handling for Schools in Ireland – Course Feedback
Feedback from Irish primary teachers and special needs assistants who attended tailored training in August, covering legal issues specific to Ireland, with comments calling the course helpful and relevant to their profession.
Positive Handling in London
Dynamis has trained staff in boroughs across London. Two options are set out, a full day with the most practice time, and a half-day or twilight session blended with online study.
Dealing with Intimidating Parents – drunk mum banned from school
A mother who arrived drunk at a Bristol school and bit a teacher was banned from the grounds. The post uses the case to introduce training on de-escalating difficult conversations with parents.
Is it okay to lift and carry a child during positive handling interventions?
Asked whether a restrained child may be lifted and carried elsewhere, the post sets out risks of injury to staff and child, plus the risk assessments, medical review and trained staff required first.
Engaging successfully with Concerned Parents
Morning separations and other difficult conversations go better with planning and careful communication, argues Gerard O’Dea, who introduces a course built on the Verbal Defense and Influence method.