We provide specialist training for local authority staff who shape, commission, or oversee services that support children, young people, and adults whose behaviour presents challenges.

Our programmes help colleagues in commissioning, social care, education, SEND, quality assurance, and strategic leadership understand:

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• What high‑quality PBS and PBIS should look like in commissioned services.

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• How to evaluate whether providers are meeting best‑practice standards.

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• How systems, policies, contracts, and governance can enable or unintentionally restrict good behavioural support.

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Training is available in‑person, online, or through blended e‑learning, making it accessible for busy council teams.

What Local Authority Teams Will Gain

• A values-led understanding of PBS, what it is, why it matters, and how high‑quality behaviour support improves outcomes, reduces crisis, and aligns with local authority responsibilities (safeguarding, quality assurance, human-rights frameworks).

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• How to recognise (and commission) good practice:
  Learn what an effective Functional Behaviour Assessment (FBA) and behaviour support plan should contain, how Active Support is implemented in capable environments, and how to check if providers are delivering evidence-based practice.

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• Understand the key components of compliant, ethical PBS delivery; how to spot gaps; how to challenge providers; and how to embed PBS requirements into contracts, SLAs, and service specifications.

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• Explore how PBS can be embedded across placements, education settings, residential provision, transport, short breaks, and commissioned services — reducing reliance on restrictive practices and improving long-term stability.

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• Learn how PBIS tiered frameworks help tackle exclusion, suspensions, poor engagement, and behaviour at a whole‑school level; how to support schools systemically; and how restorative approaches strengthen culture.

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This training ensures your authority can make confident, informed decisions that protect individuals’ rights, reduce avoidable high‑cost placements, and improve outcomes across the system.

We recognise that council teams operate under time pressure and across complex workloads. Our training can be delivered:

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• During working hours, evenings, or twilight sessions

• Across whole departments or targeted teams (commissioning, QA, IRO, SEND, safeguarding, education inclusion, early help)

• Online, face‑to‑face, or hybrid

• As standalone modules or multi‑session programmes

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We adapt content to match your regional policy context, current pressures, and strategic priorities.

This training equips local authorities with the insight needed to commission confidently, challenge effectively, and support system-wide improvements.

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Training Content Includes:

• Implementing PBS at a system level
  What councils should expect from providers in terms of environments, staffing models, leadership, behaviour plans, data use, and rights‑based practice.

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• Understanding and evaluating FBAs
  Not to do them, but to identify whether assessments are high quality, ethical, robust, and genuinely informing proactive plans.

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• Recognising high‑quality Active Support
  How to assess whether daily practice supports independence, choice, and meaningful engagement — and whether staffing models enable this.

• Replacement skills, capability building & long-term outcomes
  How good support teaches safer, more appropriate behaviours and reduces risk, crisis, and placement breakdown.

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• PBIS for schools within your local authority
  How to support schools to adopt tiered frameworks, restorative practices, and data‑led approaches that reduce exclusions and improve behaviour.

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• Quality assurance, oversight & governance
  Tools and indicators to help LAs meet duties under human rights, safeguarding, inclusion, and best-practice frameworks.

• Reducing restrictive practices
  Understanding what commissioners should look for, what ethical practice requires, and how to hold services accountable.