Training for staff is an essential part of getting the right PBS practices in place and there are a range of options for this. However, too often knowledge based training alone is seen as THE solution. Training is simply commissioned and then it’s ‘hoped’ that it will deliver ‘PBS’. But without supervised practice this is…
We are delighted to say that Redstone PBS won an award recently at the Restraint Reduction Network Conference run by the British Institute for Learning Disability (BILD). We won the award in partnership with MacIntyre, a leading national charity which provides learning, support, education and care to over 1,500 children, young people and adults with…
Emily is a young woman with a good sense of humour, infectious smile and laugh. She has a significant learning disability and limited verbal communication. There were some real issues for Emily when we first met her. She hadn’t left her home for several months and sadly spent a lot of time under a…