How many people should we train in positive handling in our school?

Questions we often get asked at Dynamis are how many people should we train in positive handling skills? Should we train the whole staff team or should we train a specialist group? There is no specific guidance available about what is the ‘correct’ number of staff to train in positive handling at your school, however there

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Your Breakaway Training Day needs to have LOTS of practice time

A Breakaway training day from Dynamis is designed to enable Public-Facing staff faced with the imminent threat of violence or a violent assault with the appropriate attitudes and tactics for personal safety. If danger can not be avoided any other way, staff should breakaway or disengage from violence and move towards safety using appropriate personal

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NHS Security Officer training for a group of NHS hospitals – Feedback over 5 years.

We recently took the opportunity to review hundreds of feedback responses from a long-standing hospital security client who chose for their NHS Security Officer training in hospitals in various parts of the UK, since 2018. We have collated the feedback from individual NHS Security Officer training who worked with our trainers over the period, to

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NHS Trainers Shocked by gains from Scenario Approach

Our Director of Training, Gerard O’Dea, and Professor Chris Cushion worked with a number of experienced conflict and physical intervention trainers from NHS boards around Scotland to introduce them to the SCENA Scenario-Driven Training Approach in early March 2022. The team – already competently teaching a variety of approaches to tactics including Maybo, GSA, Functional

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