RRN Teach Safer Services for Children and Young People

The Teach Safer RRN-Approved Services for Children and Young Adults programme is specifically designed for professionals supporting children, adolescents, and young adults in educational, residential, and social care environments. Created alongside leading specialists, this curriculum recognises that behaviour is a form of communication, the training empowers your workforce to prioritise relational safety, meet new statutory […]

The Teach Safer RRN-Approved Services for Children and Young Adults programme is specifically designed for professionals supporting children, adolescents, and young adults in educational, residential, and social care environments. Created alongside leading specialists, this curriculum recognises that behaviour is a form of communication, the training empowers your workforce to prioritise relational safety, meet new statutory duties, minimise or eliminate the reliance on restrictive practices.

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Key Course Features

Trauma- & Attachment Informed

Grounded in developmental needs, trauma models, and emotional attachment to protect a young person's emotional wellbeing.

RRN-Certified Alignment

Fully complies with national training standards and rigorous legal frameworks for child and youth services.

Proactive & Relational Focus

Emphasizes early intervention, positive behaviour support (PBS), and environmental modifications to prevent escalation.

Medically Risk-Assessed Techniques

Any physical strategies taught are low- arousal and strictly reserved as an absolute last resort to prevent imminent harm.

Who Is This Programme For?

Essential for all staff teams working with children and young people who may display behaviours of concern, distress, or vulnerability, including:

Residential Child Care

Children’s residential homes, short-break services, and supported lodgings.

Social Care & Support

Community youth services, adolescent mental health teams, and family support workers.

Education

Special Educational Needs (SEN) schools, Social, Emotional, and Mental Health (SEMH) provisions, mainstream schools, and colleges.

Programme Aims & Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, learners will be able to:
  • Understand the law, legislation, and human rights frameworks (including DfE and seclusion regulations) governing restrictive practices.
  • Recognise early warning signs and emotional triggers to crisis.
  • Apply Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) principles to build trusting, stable environments.
  • Utilise safe, non-harmful physical skills strictly when necessary and proportionate.
  • Understand how developmental stages, trauma, and communication barriers influence behaviour.
  • Implement proactive, relational strategies and low-arousal approaches to de-escalate tension safely.
  • Utilise safe, non-harmful physical skills strictly when necessary and proportionate.
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Core Refresher Curriculum

1

Rights, Legislation & Duty of Care

Exploring child protectio guidelines, human rights, and the strict legal limitations surrounding the use of force with minors.

2

Child Development & Trauma-Informed Care

Understanding how adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), trauma, and neurodiversity impact behavior and emotional regulation.

3

Proactive Environments & Communication

Mastering proactive strategies, environmental adjustments, and verbal/non-verbal de-escalation techniques.

4

Personal Safety & Disengagement

Teaching effective, low-risk physical defense and breakaway skills to handle personal safety threats safely.

5

Restrictive Physical Interventions (Last Resort)

Safe, low-arousal holding, guiding, and escorting techniques designed around the anatomical and physiological safety of growing bodies.

Why Choose Teach Safer?

"Teaching Safety, Delivering Excellence"

Teach Safer provides regulation-compliant, deeply empathetic training solutions that empower your staff to manage risk while safeguarding trust and human rights.

Flexible Delivery (2–5 Days)

Structured dynamically based on your setting's Training Needs Analysis (TNA).

Auditable Compliance

Full documentation provided to support Ofsted, CQC, and sector-specific inspections.