Schoolsafe - Promoting Personal Safety, Safe Practice And Providing Physical De-escalation Training To Schools

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Core Programme
Physical De-escalation Programme
Risk Management
‘Early Years’ Programme

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Core Programme

Aim
Increase the awareness of personal safety issues relating to difficult and dangerous behaviour for everyone in schools or pre-school settings.

Learning Objectives

To define behaviour and what it means to us as individuals

To identify how our interactions affect others

To plan proactively to prevent and avoid dangerous incidents by planning to meet individual needs, developing structures and procedures

To identify aspects of the law relating to a range of interventions

To have an understanding of risk management as an effective tool to support all those in school

To select appropriate interventions to help calm, de-escalate and handle situations in a safer, legal and ethical way

Target group

Any staff both teaching and non-teaching working within a school, or a pre-school setting, including nurseries, play schemes and PRU’s. Also available to other staff working within an educational context e.g. Home tutors, advisory teachers and education welfare etc.

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Physical De-escalation Programme

A safer way of dealing with difficult and dangerous behaviour in school, which is tailored to meet the individual, needs of the school and offers:

Flexible delivery

On-going assessment and re-accreditation

About the course

All the de-escalation skills practised are safe, legal and ethical and all techniques trained will form part of an agreed plan to support pupils according to the SchoolSAFE ethos.

A tailored programme will be offered based on assessment and discussion with the Head Teacher

Skills taught will depend on the level of risk assessed

Support network following training

Assessment and re-accreditation is required annually

Group size 15 people to 2 trainers

Access to the course

Available to all those who have completed the SchoolSAFE core programme and the risk management module.
Participants must consider their personal health in the context of the requirements of the programme and state any concerns, injuries or medical conditions or disabilities which could affect their ability to complete the course. Participants must complete a health declaration form before attending the programme.

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Risk Management

Delivered over one half-day session.

Risk Assessment is a requirement of Health and Safety legislation and is a valuable tool to help ensure a safe working environment.

Delivery of the module can be through consultation with key individuals within the school as well as groups.

Would normally be offered following participation on the core programme.

Offers consultation and advice on Risk Management relating to difficult and dangerous behaviour. The module covers safe, legal and ethical approaches to working towards a safer school/environment.

Risk assessment is a proactive planning approach. It links to all the policies and procedures in the school and covers general risk assessment of the environment, lone workers i.e. home tutors and individual risk assessment of pupils needs.

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‘Early Years’ Programme

Promoting personal safety for all staff working in Nurseries & Play Schemes.

The aim of the SchoolSAFE Early Years programme is to increase the awareness of personal safety issues for everyone in pre-school settings. We will address how to keep everything safe.

Our aim is to: -

Promote good working practice

Reduce confrontation through the use of preventative strategies

Ensure staff are clear about their role when they are working with children in order that their rights and those of the children are protected.

The programme will include physical de-escalation skills appropriate for use with young children. An advanced physical skills element can be added at a later date should the need arise. The skills taught will be based on risk assessments relating to specific behaviours not addressed within the core programme

24 hour support service offered following training

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If you are a member of Suffolk County Council, information on courses running in your area can be found at UniSAFE page on the Suffolk County Council web site.