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PMVA – Prevention & Management of Violence & Aggression Training.

Equip your team with the knowledge and practical skills to prevent, de-escalate, and respond safely to behaviours that challenge. Our PMVA training promotes safer, more respectful approaches to managing challenging behaviour.  

The Restraint Reduction Network (RRN) Training Standards safeguard fundamental human rights and promote person-centred, therapeutic approaches when supporting individuals experiencing distress. 

As a BILD ACT certified provider, our PMVA training aligns with the RRN Standards and supports organisations to embed least restrictive, lawful and proportionate responses. 

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Suggested attendees.

PMVA training is designed for staff who may be required to use restrictive interventions within their working environment. This training is often required for staff working in NHS-commissioned services where restrictive interventions may be used.  

Our PMVA training promotes a positive culture of care, focusing on safe, respectful, and proportionate responses from staff to respond with confidence while maintaining the dignity and wellbeing of the individuals they support. 

  • Mental health professionals – Clinical and non-clinical teams who may face high emotion, distress, or aggression. Learn practical de-escalation, dynamic risk assessment and safer responses that protect staff and those in your care. 
  • Community crisis teams – Teams responding to acute episodes where behaviour can escalate quickly. Build confidence in rapid decision-making, de-escalation under pressure, and safe interventions when risk increases.
  • SEND and specialist education staff – Staff working in SEND, alternative provision and high-support environments. Strengthen skills to reduce escalation early and respond safely to behaviours of concern while maintaining duty of care. 
  • Residential care teams – Care teams supporting individuals with complex needs in shared living environments. Develop calm, therapeutic responses, clear boundaries, and safer interventions to protect everyone involved. 
  • Clinical leaders and ward managers – Leaders responsible for consistency, safety and staff support. Improve team-wide responses, post-incident learning, and confidence in managing higher-risk situations. 
  • Social care providers – Frontline staff and managers working with individuals who may present challenging behaviour in community, residential or supported settings. Learn structured approaches to de-escalation, risk reduction, and safer practice. 

Course duration

3 Days

Course learners

12 Per Course

Trusted and accredited.

The Restraint Reduction Network (RRN) training standards are designed to ensure that any intervention used to manage challenging behaviour prioritises safety, dignity, and human rights.

As a Bild ACT certified course, our training aligns with these standards, promoting ethical standards that support the elimination of unnecessary restrictive practices.

Course content.

Click through our process slider to learn what to expect and what you will gain when taking this course.

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Part 1:

Exploring challenging behaviour.

  • Understand behaviours that challenge. 
  • Identify the importance of triggers and functions of behaviour. 
  • Recognise patterns in an individual’s behaviour. 
  • Emphasise a person-centred and rights-based approach. 

Part 2:

Primary strategies.

  • Develop pro-active strategies for prevention. 
  • Explore Positive Behaviour Support (PBS). 
  • Developing positive (therapeutic) relationships. 

Part 3:

Secondary strategies.

  • Use communication and de-escalation models.
  • Apply listening models to defuse situations.
  • Prevent and de-escalate escalating behaviours.
  • Explore person-centred distraction and diversion strategies.

Part 4:

Procedural, environmental and legal responsibilities.

  • Understand the law relating to challenging behaviours and restrictive interventions.
  • Follow national guidelines to behavioural challenges.
  • Recognise the impact of inappropriate attitudes and cognitive biases. 
  • Explore the importance of incident reporting and recording. 
  • Understand the post-incident review process.

Part 5:

Physical skills.

  • Develop strategies to ensure safety in response to behaviours that challenge.
  • Use distance, stance and positioning effectively. 
  • Apply safe moving and relocation techniques. 
  • Practice breakaway and disengagement skills. 
  • Demonstrate agreed restrictive interventions. 

Part 6:

Foreseeable risks and medical implications.

  • Identify potential medical risks and implications of restrictive interventions including postural/positional asphyxia. 
  • Understand trauma and its impact onto experiences of restrictive interventions. 

Part 7:

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

  • Recognise challenging behaviour and its triggers. 
  • Apply a person-centred and rights-based approach.
  • Prevent and de-escalate potential behaviours.
  • Understand legal aspects of challenging behaviour and physical skills. 
  • Demonstrate physical skills for safety.
  • Document and record incidents effectively. 

Part 8:

At the end of this course learners will receive: 

  • A certificate of attendance. 
  • Receive a course workbook.
  • Access to IKON Academy digital online resource area.

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prevention & management of violence and aggression

To enquire about PMVA Training, please get in touch.

PMVA (prevention & management of violence and aggression) training for Groups and Organisations. 

Our PMVA Training is BILD ACT certified and aligned with the Restraint Reduction Network Training Standards, supporting organisations in developing confident, compassionate and lawful responses to behaviours that challenge.

Call us on 01473 927 333

or email [email protected]

Please note – IKON Training does not currently offer PMVA Training for individuals or single learners, only group bookings.

TAILORED TO YOUR SECTOR

Industry-specific training.

IKON Training also offer sector specific variations of this training course tailored to your industry needs. If you are looking for something more detailed in relation to the situations and circumstances your team may face day to day, explore the range of courses for your industry below.

NHS.

Bild ACT certified training supporting NHS teams to deliver least restrictive, person-centred care while adhering to the RRN Standards. Learn more. 

Education & Further Learning.

Bild ACT certified training supporting staff to manage behaviour that challenges adhering to the RRN Standards. Learn more.

Health & Social Care.

Bild ACT certified training supporting care teams to safe responses aligned with RRN Standards. Learn more.

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