RRN Certified Training Provider

PRICE Training was certified by BILD ACT as complying with the Restraint Reduction Network Training Standards on 21^st April 2020. Our Positive Approaches to Challenging Behaviour (PACB©) curricula are approved for Education, Health and Social Care settings.

The recent arrival of the new RRN Standards raises the bar in terms of expectations around both the quality of training delivered as well as the importance of monitoring, reviewing and reducing the levels of use of restraint within organisations. The Standards aim to reduce the reliance on restrictive practices by promoting positive culture and practice that focuses on prevention, de-escalation and reflective practice.

They are designed to protect people’s fundamental human rights and promote a restraint reduction ethos and culture across organisations that use restrictive interventions.

The new Restraint Reduction Training Standards became fully operational on April 1^st 2020, however due to COVID-19, CQC now expect all services to become compliant from April 21st 2021 onwards.

The new standards are for everyone, although they will be mandatory for all training (with a restrictive intervention component) that is delivered to NHS commissioned services for people with mental health conditions, learning disabilities, autistic people and people living with dementia in England. The independent, private and voluntary sectors are included.

In addition, local authority commissioners intend to make UKAS accredited training services a requirement of social care contracts.

Although the standards are mandatory for a number of sectors and provisions, they have been designed to include the needs of children and education settings. It is important for organisations to decide if they want their training to be certified and meet rigorous standards that are aimed at ensuring best practice. If you are an organisation that previously used BILD accredited training via the voluntary PITAS scheme, then the new RRN framework is a natural extension of this arrangement.

Although education and children’s social care services are not obliged to adhere to the new standards, we strongly recommend to all our customers within these sectors to work towards meeting the standards in order to both improve the quality of training within their service but also prepare for future legislative change that may well bring all sectors under the same framework (or similar).

Those children and vulnerable adults who receive support, will have an improved quality of life and better outcomes if organisations adopt the positive culture change that RRN Certified Training brings. All restraint/physical intervention training is to be directly related and proportional to the needs of populations and delivered by competent and experienced training professionals who can evidence knowledge and skills that go far beyond the application of physical restraint.

All PRICE Training’s Positive Approaches to Challenging Behaviour (PACB©) courses are certified by the RRN. At the point of booking a course, we will clarify with you whether you are a mandatory service or not and (if not) whether you would like to receive a course that is compliant. Many of our non-mandatory customers (children’s services & education) choose to have compliant courses.

All courses are commissioned from completion of a Course Delivery Plan. Once a Training Needs Analysis has been completed by the person responsible for restrictive intervention governance and reduction with the organisation, PRICE Training will then prepare a Course Proposal that meets the specific needs of the organisation, which is to be agreed by both parties prior to the course being delivered.

There is now a requirement for a minimum of 12 hours theory before any physical techniques are trained (exceptions apply) and trainer ratios will be limited to 1:12 (2:18). RRN Certified training will:

• be provided within the context of an explicit commitment to the reduction of all restrictive practices
• ensure it protects people’s fundamental Human Rights
• improve the understanding of root causes of behaviour
• make adaptions to the curricula in relation to individuals and specific populations
• recognise and value the importance of people with ‘lived experience’
• promote a collective commitment that the use of coercive and restrictive practice can be minimised, and that the misuse of restraint can be prevented
• only include techniques that have been independently risk assessed by a biomechanics expert

The Care Quality Commission will ensure that organisations are complying with the standards. For organisations classified as mandatory* under the Restraint Reduction Standards the CQC will expect these services (across health and social care) to use training that is certified as complying with the RRN Training Standards.

From April 2021 the CQC have stated that they will be writing to all mandatory organisations to check that their training is certified. This will also become part of the CQC Inspection framework from April 2020.

Care commissioning organisations have also indicated that they will be making certified training an part of their framework expectations.

*NHS contractors &/or services for people with learning disabilities, autism or mental health conditions and CQC inspected services.

Once your organisation has decided to become an Affiliate Organisation of PRICE Training and seeks to have its own in-house trainers, there are a number of minimum professional requirements for entry to the Associate Trainer/Instructor Trainer role. Organisations must be able to evidence that prospective Associate Trainers/Instructors have:

• a professional qualification (with current up to date registration) or have completed a programme of relevant vocational training, having received a qualification within health, education or social care
• been continuously employed in a support or care role within social care, education or a health care environment for a period of not less than two years
• the capability to train effectively and have appropriate levels of teaching and training skills
• a current first aid certification including immediate life support

BILD ACT are licensed by the Restraint Reduction Network to certify training services and ensure RRN Certified organisations (e.g. PRICE Training and its Affiliate Organisations) are complying with the RRN Standards.

Under the terms of the scheme, 20% of our training curricula, senior trainers and affiliate organisations will be observed over a three year period by BILD ACT.

The existing BILD PITAS scheme ended on 31st March 2020.