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RRN Managing Challenging Behaviour Training.

Promote safer, more respectful approaches to managing challenging behaviour with our Bild ACT certified training course that meets the Restraint Reduction Network (RRN) training standards

This course equips professionals with the skills to recognise, prevent, and respond to challenging situations, ensuring safety while maintaining dignity and respect. Through evidence-based strategies, participants will develop the confidence to de-escalate conflict, reduce risk, and foster positive interactions in their workplace.

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Suggested attendees.

This course is essential for anyone who encounters challenging behaviour in their role, particularly those working in environments where physical or verbal aggression may arise.

From frontline staff and care professionals to healthcare workers, educators, customer service teams, and security personnel, the training provides practical techniques to handle difficult situations safely and effectively. Managers and supervisors will also benefit from learning how to support their teams in creating a safer, more positive workplace culture.

  • Anyone Facing Conflict at Work – Employees in roles where managing and de-escalating conflict is essential to safety.
  • Frontline Staff – Handle difficult interactions calmly and resolve conflict before it escalates.
  • Care & Support Workers – Manage challenging behaviour while maintaining professionalism and duty of care.
  • Customer Service Workers – De-escalate frustrated customers and turn tense situations into positive outcomes.
  • Healthcare Staff – Respond confidently to challenging interactions with patients, visitors, or colleagues.
  • Education Professionals – Address disruptive or challenging behaviour in schools, colleges, or universities.
  • Public Transport Staff – Manage passenger disputes, defuse tensions, and ensure a safe journey for all.
  • Security & Events Staff – Handle confrontational situations while maintaining a calm and authoritative presence.
  • Managers & Supervisors – Support teams through conflict, mediate disputes, and create a safe workplace culture.

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.

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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 the attitude and behaviour model.
  • 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 standing, supine and seated interventions.

Part 6:

Foreseeable Risks and Medical Implications.

  • Identifying potential medical risks of 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.

Training Methods

We provide a flexible approach when delivering our training.

Whether you require in-person face-to-face training or a more comprehensive online support and resource solution, we provide a variety of different delivery methods to ensure you can access the right training for you and your organisation.

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RRN (Restraint Reduction Network) Managing Challenging Behaviour TRAINING

To enquire about RRN (Restraint Reduction Network) Managing Challenging Behaviour training, please get in touch.

Invest in your team’s development and empower them to handle challenging situations with confidence. Our RRN (Restraint Reduction Network) Managing Challenging Behaviour Training equips your staff with the essential skills to navigate conflicts effectively, reduce stress, and create a more positive workplace culture.

Call us on 01473 927 333

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