1. NEWVERSION
Mike McBride – Director of PRICE Training
Debbie Price – Director of ACT

2. Association for Care Training (ACT)

3. Who are ACT?
Established in 2004 by Herefordshire Council and Worcestershire County Council
ACT is an independent not-for-profit organisation
ACT is employer-led care partnership working across health and social care settings
ACT were established in 2004 by both local authorities to administer NTSG (National Training Strategy Implementation Grant) then TSI (Training Strategy Implementation) funding which then became the Workforce Development Fund (WDF). Both local authorities were aware that an independent organisation should be established to administer the funding.
ACT is a not-for-profit organisation and acts as the voice of the employer at national, regional and local forums.

4. Meet the team Debbie Price –Managing Director
Anne McNaughton – Learning and Development Co-ordinator
Melissa Ralphs – Project Officer (Retention & Recruitment)
Sonia D’Arcy-Buckley - Project Officer
Helen Wood – Administration & Finance Officer

5. What do we do?
ACT administers Workforce Development Funding (WDF) to the Adult Social Care Sector across Herefordshire, Worcestershire and The Black Country
We work on projects that help to support the sector
We support the sector with workforce development including signposting, information, advice and guidance to the sector
We work with organisations to improve and maintain quality services
ACT has administered training support funding since This is now the workforce development funding. ACT can support you to access this funding as you will have to register and complete the national minimum data set to become eligible for funding. WDF supports the completion of training and qualifications which sit on the QCF and will continue to do so as the new standards and RQF (Regulated qualification framework) qualifications come on line. The funding come from the Department of Health into Skills for Care England and then administered by local partnerships, ACT is your local care partnership.
ACT supports the sector but bidding for projects that support the workforce. In 2016 ACT worked in Partnership with the Local Authority in Herefordshire to promote the status, image and profile of working in Adult Social Care in Herefordshire.
A short film was made to promote working in Herefordshire. ACT will also work with organisations to look at their training needs, where to access the training and source potential funding to support learning and development.
Recently delivered a project for Health Education England supporting Self-Care and Digital Innovation. This included delivery of a training package entitled Essentials in Care, which is base-line training for the workforce to include; Catheter Care, Nutrition and Hydration and Infection control. Essentials in Care is available via a free on-line learning package, providers need to input their NMDS registration in order to download certificates.
Self-Care resources can be found
We work with organisations to improve and maintain quality services as stated in our mission statement ‘promoting and building excellence in care’.

6. ACT in partnership with Protecting Rights in a Caring Environment (PRICE Training) Positive Behavioural Support & Workforce Intelligence
It is possible to extract local area information with regard to the learning and development of social care staff from NMDS-sc, i.e. only 9.5% of the workforce have received training in behaviour support and reducing restrictive practice
NMDS will also highlight training trends, i.e. PBS - are you a safe, effective and responsive service with regards to your PBS and person centred plans. CQC will require you to evidence this.

7. CQC should take action
Regulation 9 if staff have do not have effective Positive Behaviour Support plans in place.
Regulation 12 if staff have not assessed or managed challenging behaviour effectively.
Regulation 13 if staff have not taken reasonable steps to manage challenging behaviour in the least restrictive way.
Regulation 17 if the provider has not monitored or audited the number of challenging behaviour incidents or other PBS plan outcomes.
Regulation 18 if staff are not suitably trained in behaviour support or supervised by experienced people.

8. ACT and PRICE Training ACT has a trained PRICE instructor
PRICE is BILD accredited
PRICE is underpinned by a ‘Positive Behaviour Support’ approach
In partnership with PRICE, ACT has a range of learning and development training packages available
ACT researched workforce intelligence specific to PBS
With only 9.5% of the workforce trained we highlighted the need to support organisations with upskilling their staff to enable confidence, skills and capability to be increased.

9. Who are we?
PRICE Training – Protecting Rights in a Caring Environment is a BILD accredited behaviour support system that works across children and adult services with over 20 years experience and was one of the first behaviour support systems to be developed in the UK
Our offices are based locally in Coventry and Herefordshire

10. What do we do?
Train practitioners in De-escalation and Defusion strategies,Positive Approaches to Challenging Behaviour and Positive Behaviour Support
Support managers to lead in developing best practice
Support services to identify their needs
Develop positive behaviour support as a culture
Quality Assurance and Review

11. Partnership arrangements ‘building the right support’
How do we work?
Partnership arrangements ‘building the right support’
Deliver direct face to face training to carers, support staff and lead practitioners
Train in the ‘train the trainer model’
Provide consultation
Provide QA roles
Accreditation process
We work in partnership with organisations to ‘Build the right support’ , this national plan was borne out of the Winterbourne View scandal and aims to develop community services.

12. Who do we work with?
Work nationally with a wide range of organisations across the adult and children's sector, training families, residential homes, supported living,daycare,clinical care environments and secure settings.
We are working with the NHS North West London transforming care partnership comprising of 8 boroughs (Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster) to provide a transformation program in Positive Behaviour Support
Examples of who we work with – The Options Group, United Response, People in Action, The Outcomes First Group, Manchester City Council, Liverpool City Council, Essex County Council , States of Guernsey Community Services. NWL programme aims to embed PBS approaches across the boroughs training from Family Carers to Lead practitioners

13. Expertise
Strong Leadership Team with extensive experience in delivering training
Applied Behaviour Analysist
Social Workers
Registered Mental Health Nurse
Behaviour Support Specialist (Trained at The Tizard Centre)
Clinical Nurse Specialist
Managers of Residential Homes, Teachers, Managers of Learning Disabilities and Mental Heath Services

14. What does PRICE training provide?
Our courses provide participants with a good basic grounding in:
The values which underpin inclusive, person centered behaviour support
An understanding of behaviour
Identifying and making consistent responses to behaviours that may challenge
An Introduction to Positive Behaviour Support and PBS planning
De-escalation and defusion strategies
Refer group to course overviews for learning outcomes for each course however the following gives a brief understanding of our own value base as an organisation

15. The importance of reducing restrictive practices
Best practice in restoring the environment post incident
Best practice in de-briefing staff and people we support following incidents
Primary and Secondary prevention strategies
Reactive strategies (where appropriate)
Current law and guidance in relation to physical intervention in adult services (where appropriate)

16. Range of courses
De - escalation and Defusion (1 Day D&D)
De - escalation and Defusion (2 Day D&D)
Positive Approaches to Challenging Behaviour (2 Day PACB)
Positive Behavioural Support (PBS) workshops
Positive Behavioural Support (PBS) 1 and 2 Day courses.

17. Providing Solutions
Two models of delivery – we deliver and/or we can train you to deliver (a blended approach is common)
Suite of programs which always is always underpinned by Positive Behavior Support but vary in content depending the level of need (1 to 2 day courses)
Project Planning

18. Added Value
The Signis Group is comprised of three well established brands; PRICE Training (Positive approaches to challenging behaviour), Reconstruct (Training, consultancy and direct work) and tri.x (Policies, procedures and web enabled solutions).  As a group we provide those working with children and vulnerable people with the best information, practice guidance, training and consulting available.
We are unique as a group and offer programs across children and adult services that develops, delivers and quality assures work in a way no other organisation does.