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.
Restraint Reduction Training for Schools — Reduce Physical Interventions | Positive Handling
Restraint reduction is not an instruction to do nothing. The post argues it works as a system of leadership, policy, training, pupil-specific planning, environment and review, reducing avoidable intervention while keeping pupils safe.
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.
DfE Guidance on Restrictive Interventions — What the 2026 Updates Mean | Positive Handling
How the 2026 DfE guidance lands in practice, beginning with a comparison against current policy, training records, risk assessments and reporting, and asking whether a school could prove necessity and proportionality.
Positive Handling Techniques for Schools — A Practical Guide | Positive Handling
A practical guide separating de-escalation, guiding and escorting, protective positioning and last-resort intervention, so staff understand what positive handling does and does not mean, alongside legal clarity, recording and post-incident support.
Positive Handling Techniques for Schools — A Practical Guide | Positive Handling
The guide separates de-escalation, guiding, escorting and protective positioning from restraint. Positive means purposeful and proportionate, not cheerful, and physical intervention stays a last resort with clear legal expectations.