Welcome to the Redstone Positive Behaviour Support Blog page! We have tried to provide positive behaviour support examples as well as articles that help to define positive behaviour support. Have a read through to find out more detailed information about how we implement positive behaviour support, key areas and practices to think about as well as how we push through some of the challenges of implementing positive behaviour support organisationally as well as with specific teams around a focus person.
More people are becoming aware of and are interested in Positive Behaviour Support (PBS). It is now included in a significant amount of national guidance both for adults and children. This is because of the growing evidence base of the effectiveness of PBS in increasing quality of life and reducing behaviours that are harmful for…
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…
Those who know Robert well describe him as someone with a good sense of humour, who likes to have a joke and a laugh; and that he loves having a regular cup of tea. Robert also has a significant learning disability and is autistic and the work that we did with him and his support…