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In relation to responding to the risks presented by COVID-19, PRICE Training adheres to Public Health England guidance as well as acknowledging the individual policy and guidance of each and every customer organisation.
The current pandemic has had unprecedented impact on services that provide support, care and education to children, young people and adults. The disruption has left both service users and staff feeling vulnerable and concerned about their own health and safety.
The welfare of service users, those that provide care and support, and PRICE Training staff is of paramount importance and we support any decisions to cancel, postpone or abbreviate training through this uncertain period on the grounds of health, safety and wellbeing.
PRICE Training will issue periodic updates on our COVID-19 Safe Guidance to our customers, to reflect the changing landscape of this deadly virus. In the event you have not received our policy and guidance via email, all circulars will be accessible to trainers in the secure login area. Please also contact us directly if you have any questions.
Delivering training directly to customers
PRICE Training’s Senior trainers will continue to deliver training directly to customer organisations where it is considered essential to the service provision in order for that provision to meet its obligations to vulnerable service users.
‘Essential’ may be defined as complex needs settings where there are significant risks to both service user and those providing support, as well as providing initial training to new, cover or temporary staff due to staff shortage.
In-house trainers
Individual organisations may decide that in-house trainers should not train through this period of risk. However, where organisations are of the view that it is essential for training to take place it is important to support such decisions with a sound rationale as to why it should happen now instead of being rescheduled or why a reduced curricula course has been delivered. Where in-house training can be re-scheduled to a later safer climate, we recommend you do so.
In-house trainer refreshers
In-house trainers who are required to continue to train through this pandemic period may be granted an extension subject to written confirmation by a PRICE Training. PRICE Training will only recognise in-house trainers as holding an ‘extended period of certification’ where they have actively booked on a future course. Also PRICE Training will expect trainers to attend the virtual theory elements of an annual refresher in order for an extension to be granted.
Delegate refresher courses
We recommend that where an annual refresher course is due (that falls within this period of pandemic), you follow the ordinary booking process in order to ensure that once normal service resumes, you do not encounter undue delay as a result of a back log. We also encourage organisations to book on and attend our online virtual theory classes in order for existing staff to refresh and maintain their knowledge and skills in advance of attending the physical technique part of the course.
Certification
In keeping with the period of extension mentioned above, we will continue to issue certificates for courses delivered by those trainers who are booked onto a future course.
Cancellation fees
Normal cancellation charges are suspended and there will be no fee charged by PRICE Training for rescheduling training dates.
Summary
It is essential for all organisations to adhere to their own policy and guidance in relation to undertaking any training through this period of uncertainty. During this interim period, we will continue to offer support and advice as needed to those trainers and organisations.
Guidance and resources can be found at the Public Health England website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/topical-events/coronavirus-covid-19-uk-government-response
RRN useful link:
https://restraintreductionnetwork.org/wellbeing-resources/
Useful sign up:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/community-social-care-ambulance/mental-health/mh-learning-disability-autism-covid19-cell-bulletin/
Extract from recent NHS bulletin circulated by the RRN:
Restraint Training
The use of physical restraint is a high risk intervention to be used only in circumstances to prevent significant or life threatening harm to a patient or others in situations where the use of non-physical interventions have been unsuccessful.
It is the provider’s responsibility to ensure that their staff have received training as required in physical interventions and that the member of staff have been assessed as safe and competent to do so.
We have had reports from the Care Quality Commission and Ruth May’s CNO BAME advisory group of staff being expected to work in areas and engage in the physical restraint of patients without the required training, this is unsafe for patients and staff. We understand the need to balance risk and specifically the requirement to reduce face to face contact due to COVID-19 however, a risk assessment should be undertaken within your areas and the necessary steps taken to provide a COVID safe environment to
enable the continued training of staff.
Extract from; Mental Health, Learning Disability and Autism Weekly Bulletin Bulletin 32 – Friday 11 December 2020
