Online Live Workshop 
24 November 2026 
19:30-21:00 (BST)
Description
This workshop explores how sensory-informed and relational AHP practice can contribute to restraint reduction in schools. It considers overload, threat, mismatch, misunderstanding, communication difficulty, emotional unsafety, and escalation through a school systems lens. The focus is on supporting safer, more respectful, and more preventative practice across multidisciplinary teams, with attention to legal, ethical, and professional responsibilities.
Learning outcomes:
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- describe how sensory, relational, communication, and environmental factors may contribute to escalation in school contexts
- discuss how AHP practice can contribute to more preventative and respectful responses
- consider how sensory-informed and relational approaches may reduce reliance on restrictive practice
- reflect on the ethical, legal, and professional implications for their own setting
- leave with clearer ideas for supporting safety, dignity, and participation in school services
Participants will learn it through focused teaching on restraint reduction and school safety, discuss it in tutor groups, apply it to real school dilemmas, reflect on professional and ethical responsibilities, and take it back into practice through clearer preventative planning.
We know that school-based practice can look very different depending on your role, setting, and service model. Our small tutor groups are matched, as far as possible, by professional and practice context, for example, mainstream schools, specialist schools, visiting services, or integrated school-based roles. This helps OT, PT, SLT and wider AHP colleagues explore ideas in ways that feel relevant, supportive, and easier to take back into everyday practice.
Learn it. Discuss it. Apply it. Reflect on it. Take it back into practice.
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