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Blog | CPI’s Global Professional Instructors answer your question on how to reduce outburst of challenging behaviour and regain control of your classroom

Blog | CPI’s Global Professional Instructors answer your question on the five key principles of an effective reward system. 

Blog | CPI’s Global Professional Instructors answer your question on ‘take up time’ and why it is important to give pupils time to think when managing challenging behaviour

Blog | CPI’s Ollie Frith visits Sharnbrook Academy, the winner of CPI’s Behaviour Survey prize to immerse himself in their school culture for the day.

Blog | CPI Global Professional Instructor Michelle Dewsall shares her experience of delivering CPI Safety Intervention™ Foundation Training to CI’s at ISSCT in Qatar. 

Industry expert Dr. Lori Desautels shares practical tips to help educators regain control over their own emotions to better serve the needs of the children in their classroom.

CPI’s Global Professional Instructors answer your question on how pupil exclusion can be reduced in schools 

Blog | Here are CPI’s 10 Tips on How To Be Trauma-Informed

Blog | Using CPI's 360-degree approach to behaviour management can foster positive behaviour, enhance school culture and create an environment that promotes academic success for all students.

Blog | As we eagerly await the release of Safety Intervention 3^rd Edition, we look back at how CPI MAPA has evolved over the years

Blog | CPI Professional Trainer Susy McCleery reflects on the use of negative language and how we can choose to create a more positive culture within our organisations.
 

Blog | CPI’s professional instructors answer your question on whether they feel isolation is the answer to addressing challenging behaviour in schools.
 

Affiliates | CPI’s Quality and Compliance team are on hand to help customers through the Bild ACT affiliation process as Aneesa of NISI Staffing can testify to.
 

Blog | The pandemic increased the need for CPI training across the UK. For the NHS Foundation Trusts in the North West of England the training has been integrated really successfully into paediatric settings.

Blog | We’ve rounded up the legislation and guidance for care professionals working with children and young people that will shape your decision making.

Blog | As part of a series of blogs on Scottish legislation and guidance, we look briefly at the first tribunal case in Scotland which found that the restraint of a young autistic female amounted to unlawful discrimination.

Blog | Keeping up to date with legislation is not always easy but it is important. We’ve rounded up the Scottish legislation that refers to restraint.

Blog | CPI Global Professional Instructor Mien Bhagwandin talks about the most effective way to deliver bad news. 
 

Affiliates | Meet our Quality & Compliance team who can help you through the process of affiliation, understanding the Restraint Reduction Network Training Standards and what the Standards mean for your organisation.

News | We recently sent out a survey to find out more about how behaviour is changing and how it's being tackled by teachers across a range of schools. Read part two of the results from our School Behaviour Survey.

News | We recently sent out a survey to our education contacts to find out more about how behaviour is changing and how it's being tackled by teachers across a range of schools. The results highlight a number of behaviour management issues.

Blog | A CPI Professional Instructor answers a question on how to manage out-of-control classroom behaviour and encourage pupils to complete the work set for them.
 

Blog | We give you five simple tips that can help when trying to diffuse a situation with a difficult person.
 

Blog | A CPI’s Global Professional Instructor answers one of your questions on scripted interventions and explains how they benefit teachers when engaging in difficult conversations with pupils.

Case Study | Edge Hill University in the North West of England delivers CPI training to its nursing students as it meets all the NHS's conflict resolution requirements and adds to that with extra practical solutions.

Event | CPI’s education division (formerly Pivotal Education) has relaunched and rebranded its highly successful Leading Behaviour Change seminars to now be our Leading Culture Change events.

Event | Find out more about our CPI Conference in 2023 which will be held in Manchester on May 25th and will have the theme Collaborating for Change - Understanding Behaviour Challenges: How Experts by Experience Improve Outcomes.

Blog | Leverage these CPI training programme lone worker safety tips from our US colleagues to keep your employees safe.

Blog | How do you help staff learn the strategies taught in training? Everyone’s learning style is unique, but most benefit from a mix of these powerful methods.

Blog | One of CPI's education experts takes a question on poor, and sometimes dangerous, behaviour in a large science class.
 

Blog | CPI’s experts answer your questions on education. From behaviour management to fostering a positive classroom culture, we’ve got all the answers.

Blog | A CPI expert answers a question regarding routines and how to ensure they are successfully embedded into your school and classroom culture.
 

NEWS | CPI's Clinical Holding training receives award in the Best Educational Programme category at the HSJ Partnership Awards.

Blog | When staff know how to implement the appropriate intervention at the right time, it can improve staff confidence, morale as well as patient safety.

Blog | CPI trainer Laura West looks at why it's important that we, specifically when talking about neurodiversity, try and make the right choice of words and terms.

Blog | We look at the benefits of our Direct Delivery training model, which organisations it would be most suited for and how we can help with providing training facilities if needed.

Blog | One of our Global Professional Instructors based in Australia, Paula Elliot, talks about her role, what she likes about it and what it's like working for CPI within the training team.

Blog | One of CPI's Global Professional Instructors in Australia, Paula Elliot, knows first-hand the importance of organisations, wherever they are in the world, having a Certified Instructor and the benefits of CPI's train-the-trainer model.

Blog | CPI’s Global Professional Instructors answer your questions on education, from behaviour management to fostering a positive classroom culture we’ve got the answers.
 

Blog | CPI Global Professional Manager for Adult Services Tim Sproston discusses what lack of capacity really means and some of the key principles that must be considered.
 

Blog | Francis Florencio reflects on the importance of children and young people’s mental health as we head into Children's Mental Health Week in the UK.

Blog | Global Professional Instructor Huw Lloyd writes about his experiences, from his perspective as a CPI trainer, of his first encounter with our Clinical Holding training.

Blog | CPI’s Global Professional Instructors answer your questions on education, from behaviour management to fostering a positive classroom culture, we’ve got the answers.
 

Blog | Just some of the reasons to choose CPI training and how that training has been built on MAPA and Pivotal Education philosophies.

Case Study | How Ladygrove Primary School built on a pivotal approach and used CPI's Safety Intervention training to create calm, consistent behaviour throughout the whole school.

Blog | A CPI Global Professional Instructor addresses the issue raised by a Year 6 primary school teacher about how to get pupils to answer her questions.

Case Study | Joanne Adkins of Coventry & Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust told us how working with CPI for 10 years has made a positive impact on the Trust's provision of services and its mission to reduce restraint.

Blog | A CPI expert gives their advice on how to build relationships and trust with pupils from difficult home backgrounds.

Blog | A CPI trainer addresses the common problem of how to manage consistent low level disruption in the classroom.

Blog | A CPI expert answers a teacher's question around behaviour management award systems and seating plans.
 

Blog | CPI Global Professional Instructor Steve Martin considers the importance of first aid training for staff who use physical interventions.
 

Blog | Educators play a key role in helping children re-acclimatise to the classroom. But post-pandemic, there is a growing need for them to help alleviate parental anxiety around school transitions too.

Blog | CPI Global Professional Instructor Huw Lloyd gives his take on the recent study by The University of Roehampton which highlights violence against teaching assistants.
 

Blog | As we approach Anti-Bullying Week, CPI Global Professional Instructor Vicki Conway considers what bullying is, why people bully and what we can do about it.
 

Blog | CPI Global Professional Instructor Michelle Dewsall looks at the impact of precipitating factors on men’s mental health
 

Blog | CPI Global Professional Instructor Huw Lloyd considers the increasing use of mobile phones and other technology in schools over the past 50 years.

Blog | Our Global Professional Instructor Katharine Sell explores the importance of making your own mental health a priority amidst a cost of living crisis and other factors.

Blog | CPI trainer Adam Mellor looks at CPI's Opt-Out Sequence, which is essentially the art of knowing when to hold and when to let go to ensure the safety of everyone.

Blog | CPI Global Professional Manager Susy McCleery looks at trauma and Adverse Childhood Experiences and how we can support and understand those who have experienced them.

Blog | September is World Alzheimer's Month. Our Global Professional Instructor Mien Bhagwandin talks about her first experiences of dealing with someone living with dementia and how to deal with changing behaviour.

Blog | That hour or so before your attendees arrive is crucial to get prepared for the day. CPI Global Professional Instructor Helen Calvert provides some guidance on the things to consider when preparing a training room.

Blog | One of our Global Professional Instructors gives their advice on how to record an occurrence of risk behaviour so others can better understand the staff response.

Blog | Our Director of Training Chris Sheehan talks about his experiences of delivering Clinical Holding training over the past couple of years.
 

Blog | Global Professional Instructor Alison Grimley provides some tips on how to ensure adults are able to maximise their learning when on any training programme.

Blog | Reflective practice in teaching can show how you’ve responded to past successes and challenges in the classroom and help prepare you for the new school year.

Blog | CPI’s blog discusses how the influence of precipitating factors can lead to aggressive behaviour.

Blog | A guest blog from a teacher who wants to encourage fellow teachers to see the learner behind the behaviour and, in turn, help to build their resilience.

Blog | CPI Director of Training Maria Taylor looks at anxiety, the first level of the Crisis Development Model, and how to ensure the staff response is right.

Blog | Winning over the hearts and minds of colleagues will make the implementation of a new behaviour  strategies, policy or procedure so much more efficient and effective.

Blog | CPI trainer Vicki Conway looks at how we can unwind and look after our own mental health at the end of a stressful day.

Blog | The CQC has released a progress report which strongly shows that not enough change has been made in the past two years to reduce restrictive interventions.

Blog | We can communicate in many ways when we are delivering our training; verbally, paraverbally and non-verbally. CPI trainer Steve Martin looks at how Certified Instructors and other trainers can become better at communicating.

Blog | How to recognise and support neurodivergent learners in your classroom.

Blog | For World Book Day, Global Professional Instructor Huw Lloyd takes a look at how some of the schools he trains in make the most of the event and stick to its true meaning.

Blog | One of our Global Professional Instructors explores how, using the concept of the Intergrated Experience, you can boost your mental resilience. 

Blog | To coincide with Mental Health Nurses Day, we're resharing a previous blog focusing on a UNISON report examining mental health staff and services in 2017. The pre-pandemic results indicated a sector under pressure.

Blog | Find out more about the 6 Core Strategies and how CPI's training can support your organisation in implementing them.

Case Study | CPI has been training instructors at Gwynedd & Isle of Anglesey County Councils for 10 years. Those trainers have then trained others within a variety of schools from small rural primary schools to much larger secondary schools - each with fantastic results.

Blog | CPI trainer Simon Rogers looks at some of the useful tools trainers can use to ensure their style of training suits and benefits everyone.

Blog | There is no magic strategy or silver bullet for improving behaviour. Focus on prevention and creating a culture in which problem behaviour is less likely to occur.

Blog | Looking into our own behaviours can help us address the things we say and how we say we say them (paraverbals) and how they contribute to the crisis behaviour of others.

Blog | Post crisis, it's important that both the individual and members of staff feel supported as no one will want the situation to escalate again.

Blog | CPI's top tips on how to listen effectively.

Blog | The aim of this blog is to give you some basic verbal strategies that you could think about using when faced with an individual in distress.

Blog | Statutory guidance for NHS organisations in England and police forces in England and Wales underlines the need for all training that includes restrictive physical interventions to comply with the RRN Training Standards. Blog features links to the Standards and various guidance.

CPI's Lucy Parker tells us what to expect from CPI instructor training if you haven't done anything like this before.

Global Professional Instructor Cathy Duncan focuses on One Kind Word, the theme of this year's anti-bullying week.

Blog | Take some time each week to be thankful and show thanks to those around you whether they be colleagues, learners, patients, service users or friends and family. #ThankYouThursday

Understanding levels of behaviour and what training is right for your organisation or school.

Blog | What is CPI's Crisis Development Model^SM and how can it be used to prevent or de-escalate the situation.

It's World Mental Health Day on October 10th so let's open up our communication not just for the 10th or even the month, but as an ongoing aim.

Some ideas for communicating a school’s vision for behaviour to parents / carers.

Managing behavioural risks post-Covid.

Blog covering five myths that can hinder a positive culture in your school.

Training needs to be engaging, insightful, accessible but most importantly it needs to be actionable and sustainable.

CPI’s trauma element within our core training programmes covers how trauma impacts people and how to be trauma-responsive.

CPI's new Dementia Capable Care training programme is based on an enriched model of care and support.

Blog | Wrist Flexion Techniques (WFT) are pain inducing with increased risk of injury.

Teachers have got to prioritise their own wellbeing to avoid burn out.

Fostering a positive culture within all classrooms

Guidance for those making the transition from MAPA to CPI's Safety and / or Verbal Intervention training programmes.

A few ideas on how to support carers and their dementia patients throughout lockdown.

Tolerance in education.

Be prepared for the RRN Standards | Access our free webinar

Three ways to empower young people to establish a strong, authentic sense of self.

Being challenged by Covid-19 has allowed us to reflect on the important question of why we are doing something.

Blog | RRN Training Standards certification is a legal requirement for all NHS commissioned Mental Health Services and will become a statutory responsibility for all social care providers.

When young people feel attached to their school, they are less likely to exhibit disruptive behaviour or emotional distress.

Training at St Andrews Healthcare during Covid 

Blog | If we’re going to have any chance of developing and sustaining a culture of positive behaviour, it is vital we do everything in our power to embed those consistencies so even on the last day of term they are seen, heard and felt by everyone.

BLOG | The start of this school year is going to be a very different one for children, parents and staff.

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare and CPI training.

Virtual training insight from CPI's Global Professional Instructors.

The new RRN training standards mean a whole organisation change.

Covid-19 CPI training updates

COVID-19 Message from Martyn Dadds MD, CPI International.

News | Shadow Schools Minister Mike Kane visited the CPI offices in Sale, Manchester to find out more about our training and our work around restraint reduction.

How to ask for post training support from your boss. And CPI is here to help with any training questions you may have.

Professor Joy Duxbury, chair of the Restraint Reduction Network in England, explores where to start with creating an organisational restraint reduction plan.

Case study | Ravenswood School & CPI training

News: A clear policy on the use of restraint will provide clarity for teachers and carers.

CPI Case Studies - Showcase your training success.

There’s a deep connection between patient and staff safety... and an easy-to-overlook way to improve it that can actually cut costs.

Case Study | Headteacher Ali Bellaby shares how CPI training serves mentally and medically challenged pupils in her unit.

The Integrated Experience is defined as the way behaviour impacts behaviour—how my behavioural choices can impact yours.

Dementia can be a very unpredictable condition – you will have better peace of mind by having these details dealt with.

The Mental Health Units (Use of Force) Bill, introduced in November 2017, continues to be modified to be an effective guidance for patient safety.

Training may help identify common behaviours and strategies for intervention during a crisis, but training comes to life in our day-to-day experiences.

Once a person with dementia exhibits challenging behaviour, it takes a mix of empathy and skill to maintain everyone’s wellbeing.

A CPI Global Professional Manager shares tips to mindfully make the world a better place, paired with CPI resources that can help you implement these tips into your everyday life.

CPI's top ten de-escalation tips are everyday strategies for crisis prevention, and a way of seeing humanity as full of potential, and not hopelessly problematic.

De-escalation tip 10

It's important to be thoughtful in deciding which rules are negotiable, and which are not.

Stock your toolbox with these tips, resources, and perspectives on using your CPI training at work and home.

Redirect challenging behavior and restore focus to the issue at hand.

Sometimes just being present can be a powerful force of a calm in a crisis.

Keeping your cool in a crisis might be easier said than done, but it can facilitate real healing for a person in need.

A former prosecutor’s tip for connecting with jurors is readily adaptable to helping calm an individual in crisis.

Defuse tension in a crisis by taking a Supportive Stance℠.

Mindful compassion can take a situation from conflict to connection.

Lesley Kandola recently visited Singapore to deliver a MAPA Foundation Course. Here she shares her experiences and what she learnt along the way.

Launched in January 2016, St Andrew’s Healthcare’s MAPA (Management of Actual and Potential Aggression) programme has now seen more than 1,800 clinical practitioners complete the course.

Restraint reduction has been in the news a lot here in the UK. While we obviously do train people in restraint techniques, our focus has always been on prevention, with use of safe, non-harmful physical intervention only as a last resort.

The National Development Team for Inclusion have released new guidance for staff to achieve a healthy work/life balance.

“The course really underpinned my own values of working in a patient-centred and least-restrictive manner,” writes nurse Gemma Willingham-Storr.

The families of people with mental illness are calling for more training for both police officers and NHS staff.

Training is essential for all nursing staff who treat vulnerable adults.