What can positive handling training not solve?
Training can improve understanding of prevention, de-escalation and reasonable force, but it cannot replace a clear behaviour policy, fix unsafe staffing or remove the need for judgement. The post offers a fair test.
Positive Handling Techniques: A Practical Guide for Staff
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.
How Incivility, rudeness and disrespect are damaging our workplaces and maybe our schools
Incivility, from belittling remarks to offensive jokes, is described through a TED talk on its effects. The post links this to early intervention phrases that stop incidents while they are still small.
Managing Behaviour may include Positive Handling
Managing behaviour should begin with persuasive verbalisation, but this post argues physical alternatives are sometimes needed when words fail. A behaviour management consultant calls the tailored course the best of three providers.
Positive Handling Feedback: “more confident and empowered – fantastic”
An inclusion leader at Holy Cross Primary reports that staff left feeling more confident and empowered, able to use positive handling safely, and praises Pauline for making the training personal to their setting.
Can Online Training help you to allocate the right resources to Positive Handling?
Learner comments on the online element, which delivers theory before the practical day. Responses say it saved time, allowed reflection, and left more room for hands-on practice not reliant on strength.
How many school staff to train in positive handling?
Whole school training is not always the right answer. Schools should identify the staff who are most likely to need to restrain a child, such as the SENCo, behaviour leads, teachers and teaching assistants.
The Six Positive Handling Scenarios in Schools
Six situations that can call for force or positive handling in schools are introduced by Gerard O’Dea, who discusses the common scenarios staff may meet.
Restraint in school – what the law says
A pointer to a Schools Week article by solicitor Jade Kent on the use of force, plus Mark Dawes’ advice on agreed policy, suitable training, behaviour plans and recording everything.
Positive Handling by the Numbers #3: Section 3 Risk Assessments
Section 3 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 requires employers to assess risk to employees. Three approaches follow, covering the role, foreseeable events and dynamic decisions made mid-incident.