Positive handling policy: examples

Primary school policies

Maintained school in Wandsworth

St Mary's CE Primary School's positive handling and physical intervention policy includes:

• When physical intervention can be used
• Dos and don'ts when using positive handling
• Recording incidents
• A template positive handling plan (page 12)

Community school in Lancashire

Layton Primary School has a control and restraint policy which includes:

• Definitions
• Staff who are authorised to use physical contact
• Strategies for dealing with challenging behaviour
• Action to take after an incident
• Monitoring of incidents

Voluntary aided school in Oxford

St Edmund's Catholic Primary School explains in its positive handling policy:

• That only staff who have had Team Teach training will use positive handling techniques on children
• When and how physical restraint may be used
• How the school uses positive handling plans
• A template positive handling plan (page 6)

Secondary school policies

Academy in Essex

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