Welcome

Welcome, we are the Positive Handling and de-escalation Team, part of Tees Valley Education Trust Training.

Thank you for taking time to visit our website.  Here you will find lots of information about the training service we provide to educational settings on:

• pupil de-escalation and conflict diffusion strategies,
• understanding how childhood trauma, attachment and mental health affects our behaviours and interactions with others, and
• safe positive handling theory and safe hold techniques

We are a small, dedicated friendly group of fully qualified trainers, all school based, located in the Tees Valley area.  We also extend our training to cover the wider north of England area (upon request). Our trainers are fully qualified to deliver safe, effective and legitimate positive handling and de-escalation training to school-based staff.  Our training is comprehensive and covers both theory and physical safe holds.

We work across all education settings (mainstream, special and ARPs) and all pupil age ranges.

Whilst this website provides lots of useful information about what we do, and how it can assist education-based staff in their roles in supporting young people, if you are interested in learning more about our service or booking session(s) for your staff, we would ask that you contact our Positive Handling Lead Coordinator, Tracy Gill, on 01642 210704 tracy_gill@tved.org.uk for more information.  We can discuss your settings individual requirements and tailor a bespoke training package for your school.