Specialists in the Prevention and Management of Aggression and Violence
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This course delivers comprehensive practitioner-level knowledge and skills in a broad continuum of intervention tactics and the related laws and risks which staff must understand to use them appropriately. One of our most popular courses.
Care and Control
(for Staff working with Children and Young People - 2 Days)
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, your staff will have successfully completed all the necessary learning outcomes for the award of an Edexcel-accredited and NFPS-approved certificate of competency.
Staff who successfully complete this course will:
• Explain the requirements of the various pieces of legislation with regard to physical restraint of children and vulnerable adults, specifically the Children Act 1989 and Department of Health Guidance.
• Understand Reasonable Force in relation to physical restraint.
•Explore the requirements of The Human Rights Act 1998 and how they apply to physical restraint.
•Examine the requirements of Health and Safety statute and associated Regulations and show how they apply to physical restraint.
•Evaluate the risks associated with physical restraint and explore how to minimise those risks.
•Identify and describe the relevant Acts of Parliament and other government regulations in relation to the physical restraint of vulnerable individuals and groups.
•Differentiate between holding, escorting and restraining and non-harmful seated restraint techniques and how to apply them.
•Demonstrate and explain how to gradually de-escalate and relax restraint to allow the subject being restrained to regain self-control.
•Investigate the difference between non-harmful methods of control and more restrictive methods of control and when the use of such methods would be considered appropriate.
Other Information
This is our 2-Day Care and Control course.
Our 3-Day Physical Intervention course is here.
This training course is suitable for Care Workers, Nurses, Support Workers and other staff who may look after service users who can demonstrate high levels of vulnerability or risk.
Our courses are always tailored to the environment in which they are delivered, using national-level guidance and legal standards.
“I have never done a course that equalled this level - I thought the training was broken down into very easy to learn steps and the movements could be made to work in very fluid scenarios. Absolutely fabulous - already recommended to other colleagues”
- Senior Residential Care Worker
