Challenging Behaviour Training for adult and child settings including Schools & Education, Foster Care, Children’s Homes, Elderly Care, Social Care & Mental Health settings.
Training for Foster Care Overview:
The following courses are focused on foster care and have been developed and adapted to meet the specialist situation of supporting a looked after child in the family home. We are continually adding new courses and have a team of specialists including child psychologists and counsellors, social workers and behavioural specialists that can tailor courses to meet your carer’s needs.
Are you an individual? Head to our individual's section for more information.
Able Target System, Positive Behavioural Support
Module 3: Positive Handling & Restraint
For medium risk settings Module 3 provides training in restrictive and non-restrictive physical intervention skills including; positive handling, guiding/shepherding techniques, restraint or clinical holding. For those experience hazardous behaviours that poses physical risk to staff or service users, where non-restrictive breakaway skills may not always be adequate to manage the risk and restrictive physical skills or manual restraint may be required.
First Aid
Level 3 Paediatric First Aid
Attendees will learn the roles and responsibilities of the paediatric first aider, and will be equipped with the necessary skills to administer safe and effective treatment when dealing with a range of paediatric first aid situations.
Understanding People's Needs
Therapeutic Parenting
Our Therapeutic Parenting Course is aimed at Parents and Supporting Professionals that want to learn the core principles of Therapeutic Parenting.
Understanding People's Needs
Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA)
Learn support structures and effective strategies to aid young children and adolescents with the Pathological demand avoidance (PDA).
Health & Safety
Oral Health Care
This 3 hour course will give staff additional skills to support those they work with in their oral care.
Mental Health, Understanding People's Needs
Supportive Observations within Mental Health
The overall aim of supportive observations is to prevent potentially suicidal, violent or vulnerable patients from harming themselves or others, manage risk or therapeutic activity.
Managing Challenging Behaviour, Understanding People's Needs
Understanding Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
Our Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder course gives learners an overview of what FASD is and helps them recognise the signs and symptoms of the disorder. The course outlines tools and strategies for the support, care and education of someone affected with FASD and how it may affect them across their lifespan.
Managing Aggression
Challenging Behaviour in Foster Care
This course explores the causes and strategies for managing challenging behaviours with the goal of meeting the foster child’s needs.
Understanding People's Needs
Managing Allegations
This course explores the challenges associated with allegations and complaints against those that care for children and clearly outlines the processes and procedures that should be taken.
Personal Development
Equality & Diversity
This course raises awareness of Equality & Diversity in the workplace, encourages candidates to reflect on their values, attitudes and opinions and explores how prejudices develop.
Managing Challenging Behaviour, Personal Safety, Physical Intervention
Breakaway & Restraint Training
This course explores the six stages of managing aggression and challenging behaviour including physical and non-physical defence strategies and will be tailored to your workplace setting.
Moving & Handling
Moving & Handling Loads
This course provides an effective means of ensuring that employees are aware of their responsibilities and have understood the principles of the safe moving and lifting of loads.
Personal Development, Understanding People's Needs
Basic Counselling Skills Course
This course explores the key skills used in counselling that are also invaluable to any person in a helping relationship.
Understanding People's Needs
Understanding Self Harm
This course explores what self-harm is, who does it and how to recognise potential signs.
Safeguarding
Men in Fostering
This workshop is aimed at male foster carers giving them an environment where they can speak openly and confidentially about their experiences of caring.
Positive Behavioural Support, Understanding People's Needs
Attachment Awareness
An introductory training course that outlines a basic understanding of what attachment is, and how it may impact on the relationships and behaviour of children within a care setting environment.
Health & Safety
Health & Safety for Foster Carers
This course helps carers meet legal standards and provides the knowledge and skills to recognise and reduce common household risks.
First Aid
First Aid for Foster Carers
Theoretical and practical training in First Aid techniques suitable for infants, children and teens, designed to meet standard 6.7 of the National Minimum Standards for Fostering Services.
Able Target System, Positive Behavioural Support
Module 1: Positive Behavioural Support (PBS) & De-escalation
For low risk settings. Module 1 covers Positive Behavioural Support & De-escalation training for those that experience behaviour of concern but there is little or physical risk to staff or service users. It is also suitable for those who want to better support individuals to prevent behaviours from escalating.
Able Target System, Positive Behavioural Support
Module 5: Mechanical Restraint
For high risk settings that require mechanical restraint Module 5 provides training for those who have the need to use personal safety devices or mechanical restraints e.g soft cuffs.
Able Target System, Positive Behavioural Support
Module 4: Advanced Safe Holding
For medium to high risk settings, Module 4 provides advanced physical skills training to manage high risk situations where the level of risk poses a significant physical risk to staff or service users, and restrictive physical skills or manual restraint are required regularly. The level of risk posed may require the need for higher level techniques including floor or safety pod holds, seclusion, or rapid tranquillisation.
Able Target System, Positive Behavioural Support
Module 2: Personal Safety & Breakaway
For low to medium risk settings Module 2 provides personal safety strategies, non-restrictive physical skills including responsive interventions to manage big emotions and breakaway training for those who experience hazardous behaviour that poses a physical risk to staff or service user. Staff need training in personal safety, breakaway or separation techniques but should not be required to use manual restraint. (this is the maximum level for lone workers)
Mental Health, Understanding People's Needs
Understanding Mental Health & Mental Illness
An in-house training course designed to increase understanding, decrease stigma and promote and provide support for those affected by mental illness.
Safeguarding
Managing Safeguarding Children
An advanced, in-depth course on child safeguarding, aimed at learners who have prior safeguarding knowledge or experience.
First Aid, Health & Safety
Administration of Medication Awareness
This 3 hour awareness course will be tailored to focus on residential, domiciliary, child or adult settings and meets National Minimum Standards and fulfils CQC and Ofsted guidelines for administration of Medication.
Understanding People's Needs
PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)
This course explores the causes, symptoms, treatments and impact that PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) can have on people and individuals.
First Aid, Health & Safety, Managing Challenging Behaviour, Understanding People's Needs
Ligature Awareness & Protocol
This half day course is designed to give staff skills and confidence to reduce, assess, manage and treat incidents of ligature.
First Aid
Epilepsy Awareness
An awareness course delivered over a half or full day, useful for anyone with an interest or a need to better understand, support, or treat someone with epilepsy.
Safeguarding, Understanding People's Needs
Safer Caring for Foster Carers
This course enables learners to understand how to assess risk, what children need to feel safe and to develop ‘safer care guidelines’ for a fostering environment.
Safeguarding, Understanding People's Needs
Fostering Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children
This course explores and addresses some of the challenges that both the young person and the foster family may experience throughout the process of seeking asylum and settling into a new situation.
Personal Development, Understanding People's Needs
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
This course explores the key principles of CBT and teaches delegates about its use and methods of application.
Mental Health, Understanding People's Needs
Autism Awareness
This course helps delegates to understand autism and Asperger’s syndrome and how to help support individuals with these conditions. It explores challenging behaviour within autism and autism behaviour management strategies.
Managing Aggression, Positive Behavioural Support, Understanding People's Needs
PTSD in Children
This course explores the causes, symptoms, treatments and impact that PTSD can have on children.
Understanding People's Needs
Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) Awareness Training
This half-day or one-day course equips parents, carers and teachers to identify and act on the signs of child sexual exploitation.
Safeguarding, Understanding People's Needs
MCA & DOLS
This course is aimed at those working with individuals to whom the Mental Capacity Act 2005 may apply and explores key concepts around the MCA and DOLS.
Health & Safety
Food Safety & Nutrition in Foster Care
This course helps develop an understanding of food safety that is suitable to a home setting and also addresses good nutrition for young people.
Safeguarding
Record and Report Writing in Foster Care
This course supports foster carers to write appropriate and accurate records within child social care roles.
First Aid
Emergency Paediatric First Aid Level 3
Theoretical and practical training in First Aid techniques specific to infants aged 0 to 1, and children aged from 1 year old to the onset of puberty.
First Aid
CPR & AED (Defibrillator) Training
This course is recommended for first aiders in the workplace environment who have access to a defibrillator.
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