Breakaway Skills

Course overview

This one-day training programme follows the Restraint Reduction Network (RRN) Training Standards. It equips course participants to safely breakaway from people who are disruptive and challenging. The course teaches people to focus on least restrictive practices and promotes positive and proactive communication to manage and de-escalate difficult situations, with an emphasis on any physical intervention skills taught, to be used as a last resort. (Positive and Proactive care DOH 2014).

Target Group

This one-day training programme follows the Restraint Reduction Network (RRN) Training Standards. It equips course participants to safely breakaway from people who are disruptive and challenging. The course teaches people to focus on least restrictive practices and promotes positive and proactive communication to manage and de-escalate difficult situations, with an emphasis on any physical intervention skills taught, to be used as a last resort. (Positive and Proactive care DOH 2014).

Learning Outcomes

• The skills required to deal with face-to-face aggression
• Techniques, knowledge and the confidence to escape from threatening situations
• Developed an awareness of relevant law including the use of reasonable force
• Considered risks and the organisations and individual's responsibilities around policies and procedures

Cost: Please contact CQT

Duration: 1 Day

Refresher Duration: 1/2 - Day