Managing Challenging Behaviour (Theory) - Local Authority & Housing Sector

Course outline

This course is a prerequisite to the practical training and is designed specifically so that your people will be able to identify and manage challenging behaviour pro-actively.

By the end of the course they will be able to understand and implement de-escalation strategies with a focus on early intervention.

Suggested attendees

All frontline staff and all those facing challenging or aggressive behaviour.

This Local Authority & Housing training course is aimed at all staff including:

  • All new employees
  • Those facing challenging and aggressive behaviour
  • Children’s Services
  • Teaching Staff

Course content

Understanding challenging behaviour in your setting

  • Experiences and challenges faced
  • Causes, triggers and precursors
  • Identifying patterns of behaviour

De-escalation strategies and techniques

  • Attitude and behaviour model
  • Verbal and non0verbal communication
  • Listening model to defuse
  • De-escalation strategies

Legal rights and responsibilities

  • Policies and procedures
  • The legal framework and how it can support you
  • National guidelines

By the end of this course your team will be able to:

  • Recognise the signs of challenging behaviour
  • De-escalate using excellent communication skills
  • Understand the legal position and how it relates

At the end of this course your team will receive:

  • A certificate of attendance
  • Access to a dedicated delegate resource area via IKON Academy
  • Duration 3.5 hours

  • Delegates 16 Max

Delivery methods

IKON Live,
live online training

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Face-to-face
training

Many of our courses, especially those with physical skills, can be delivered in a face-to-face in-person training environment, either at your venue or ours.

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    • Fantastic course, really helpful, the trainers had so much experience in this field, they could answer and queries we had. Really enjoyed it, thank you.

      Course delegate,
      Suffolk County Council

    • Great trainer, humorous, attentive, knowledgeable, great pace. Learnt a lot. Good to refresh sections after each task. Practical was excellent too. Very, very good indeed!

      Plymouth City Council

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