use of force

Pain Compliance on Children is Permissible & Why Adopt Standards For A Mental Health Unit, If You Are Not a Mental Health Unit?

The use of pain compliance on children is an emotive subject, it is contentious and one that many organisations fail…

3 years ago

Serco fined £2.25 million for H&S Failings following the Death of Custody Officer

Ms Barwell, a 54-year-old grandmother was kicked twice at Blackfriars Crown Court in 2015 during the restraint of a prisoner…

3 years ago

Ambulance Service Ordered to Pay £49,000 in Wrongful Dismissal Case After Staff Member Was Dismissed for Allegedly ‘Assaulting’ a 14 Year-Old Patient Who Had Attacked Him

  A veteran paramedic ambulance worker who was assaulted by a 14 year-old was awarded £49,000 by an industrial tribunal…

3 years ago

The Importance of Writing An Effective Incident Report

Writing and effective incident report is possibly one of the most important things you can do. This is because you…

3 years ago

Deputy Head Teacher Dismissed For Using Physical Intervention

Mr Kitchener, a Deputy Head Teacher, was dismissed from his £60,000 a year job for after he used physical intervention…

3 years ago

Recent Court Case of a Teaching Assistant Charged With Common Assault on an Eight-Year-Old Child

In 2017 I was involved in a court in a case against a young school teacher, a 27-year-old man, who…

3 years ago

Watch This If You’re Thinking of Becoming A Restraint Trainer (Video)

If you are thinking of becoming a physical restraint, physical intervention, pmva, positive handling, control and restraint trainer (as it's…

3 years ago

Teacher Dismissed for Allegedly Defending Themselves From a Pupil With a Weapon

Teacher Dismissed for Allegedly Defending Themselves From a Pupil With a Weapon. I was sent the following email two days…

4 years ago

How a Change In Lifestyle Changed People’s Genes (Video)

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4 years ago