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Assisting Children to Move (for practitioners)
- Many Rochdale schools have children and young people who require assistance to move or equipment to facilitate personal care, mobility or postural management.
- This course will look at relevant Moving and Handling legislation and guidelines relating to safe moving and handling for staff who are undertaking these tasks with pupils.
- N.B. This training is not about Positive Handling for CYP with behavioural difficulties.
The course will include:
- some practical activities around Manual Handling/care plans
- equipment commonly used in schools and settings in Rochdale
- back care
- controversial techniques
- risk assessment and manual handling/personal care plans
- maintaining dignity, privacy and self-esteem
- Rochdale’s paperwork for Individual Health Care Plans
- Facilitator
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