Knife & Edged Weapon Awareness for School Staff
Recognising the signs that a pupil may carry a weapon, and knowing not to engage but to withdraw and keep distance, is the core of an online awareness course.
Evidence-Ready Incident Records: Why They Matter in Schools
A short online course on writing incident records after positive handling, so they stay factual, separate opinion from fact and remain defensible for readers who were not in the room.
Care and Control Training: What It Involves and How It Has Evolved
Care and control courses ran two or three days, covering holding skills, breakaway, behavioural mapping and values-based verbalisation. That terminology has shifted towards prevention, de-escalation and physical intervention as a last resort.
An inclusion base should be an intervention, not a destination
The DfE guidance on inclusion bases places them inside mainstream schools, not beside them. The post welcomes the ambition of movement back into mainstream lessons, while warning bases could become renamed internal exclusion rooms.
Schools being too strict?
A BBC report describes a pupil kept in an isolation booth for half a school year. The post asks what that pupil learns, arguing that boundaries matter but strictness without dignity is not discipline.
What UAE schools told us after a week of Positive Handling training
Staff at six UAE schools rated the training highly and asked for locally grounded guidance, since the law on physically stopping a child there is not straightforward.
Report – Responding to Behaviours of Concern in Irish Schools
A report using evidence from over 2,600 staff across 124 schools finds behaviours of concern are a recurring part of Irish school life, and sets out opportunities around training, leadership and legal clarity.
Report – Managing Behaviours of Concern and Workplace Risk in UK Schools
A thematic review of training needs data from 373 schools and over 8,000 staff, gathered during 2025, examining aggression and violence in UK schools and pointing to training, leadership, legal clarity and coordination.