Passive Intervention and Prevention Strategies (PIPS) Training (Barnstaple)

PIPS training is aimed at all staff working in Primary Schools, Secondary Schools, Special Schools and Alternative Provisions.

It aims to support staff in developing a consistent, effective and acceptable team approach to managing behaviour, while, crucially, maintaining positive relationships and minimising risk for all.

This explores the key issues surrounding challenging behaviour and emphasises the importance of positive, preventative verbal and non-verbal de-escalation strategies.

This module includes work on:

- Values

- The Emotional Impact of Challenging Behaviour

- Help Protocol

- The Prevention Continuum

- Positive Prevention Strategies/Strategies to Avoid

- Systems and Structures in School

- Individual Behaviour Care Plans

This promotes the least intrusive, most caring handling strategies and explores a continuum of passive techniques designed to keep both pupils and staff as safe as possible based on “making movement safe” rather than “overpowering”.

This module includes:

- Legislation and Guidance

- Reporting and Recording

- Principles Underpinning Passive Intervention

- Moments of Crisis

- Personal Space

- Following Movement

- Guiding and Escorting

- Standing, Sitting, Kneeling

- experience and practice the skills of guiding, safe touch and holding

- explore how these acts of care combine with calming, diffusing and problem solving strategies

- experience passive intervention strategies designed to follow rather than force movement

- identify key elements for developing a consistent team approach to managing challenge

- improve knowledge and understanding around Risk Assessment

- increase awareness of the importance of recording and reporting, monitoring and evaluating

- provide a process of repair and reflection for both staff and children

- develop an increased sense of confidence at times of crisis

If your school has not received PIPs training before, please ensure the SENDCo or a member of SLT also attends. It would be wrong for TAs and Teachers to attend without these provisos.

If your school has some staff (including a member of SLT) who are already trained and you want to train someone else who has never done PIPS training before, the new member needs to attend the whole day.

If a member of staff has already done module 1 and 2 in the past three years, they can attend just module 2 as a refresher. It is recommended to update module 2 every 2-3 years.

Jan Wildbore-Urwin

SWIFT Members: £85

Other colleagues: £130

Check whether your school has SWIFT membership for 2024/25 HERE.

Please note: Payment is by INVOICE ONLY. Please select invoice as the payment method at check out.

SWIFT Partner providing course (including invoicing) is Tarka Learning Partnership.

You will receive a confirmation of booking from Eventbrite. All further correspondence will come from [email protected]; please ensure you check your junk mail box and approve the email to ensure you receive important event details.

If you are unable to attend on the day, or are sending someone else in your place, please let us know. Please be aware that failure to cancel your space can incur your school a cost.

• More than 21 days to date of event: Full refund available (minus £25 admin fee)
• Between 20-7 days to date of event: 50% refund available (minus £25 admin fee)
• 6 days or less to date of event: No refund available (plus £25 admin fee)

Should a training course recruit insufficient numbers to make it viable, we reserve the right to cancel the course, without penalty, giving minimum notice of 24 hours.

Full Terms and Conditions are available HERE.

Host or Publisher South West Institute for Teaching