Mark Dawes' Podcasts

This is a conversation between Trevel Henry and me on How Can You Run a Restraint Trainer Course in 5 Days, The Pareto Principle, Ockhams Razor, Academics and loads more!

This is an interview I did with Tony Bleetman.

It follows on nicely from the one that I did with Eric Baskind the other day and adds a professional medical perspective on a lot of restraint related issues.

Some of the main points are time stamped below:

00:23 - Inspectorate issues with the Youth Justice Board over certain physical restraint techniques (similar to the recent CQC issues raised with Eric Baskind); 

01:45 - The basic principles of how to assist an organisation to understand what the challenges are in managing behaviour even before we get to the physical skills required;

03:26 - Providing the skills relevant to the needs of the organisation;

04:18 - The use of pain-compliance techniques and 'blanket-bans' on techniques not being helpful;

05:15 - Tony's introduction to the late great Peter Boatman and the challenge given and what it taught him;

07:29 - Tony's introduction to other industry sectors; 

08:52 - The importance of working with the co-operation of staff and management to address the skills needed and how the system can evolve over time;

09:53 - Why having a rigid and inflexible set of physical skills don't work;

11:26 - The 'open book' approach to helping organisations get what they need;

13:42 - The economic benefits to the organisation in the cost savings and how we saved one organisation 1/2 a million pounds in six months and the other savings in terms of litigation etc;

15:34 - Why are some techniques being taught that shouldn't be taught?;

20:38 - A funny story about a 'shin-kick and a fire extinguisher';

22:53 - The important point about staff being allowed to use reasonable force if and when presented with a situation they couldn't have planned for;

24:53 - Dealing with issues that hadn't be dealt with properly before such as, nasogastric feeding and ligature removal;

26:42 - The George Floyd case and the 'breathing talking fallacy' (as in the Jimmy Mubenga case) and some important facts on positional asphyxia;

32:58 - The three mechanisms of death from pressure to the neck;

34:29 - The belief that when door supervisors (for example) restrain someone on the floor they must hold the restrained person there until the police arrive.

Under The Health & Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014: Regulation 13: CQC inspectors are expected to safeguard people who use services from suffering any form of abuse or improper treatment which includes .... unlawful restraint. However the CQC's response to a freedom of information request has highlighted that CQC inspectors are very highly likely to be unqualified or competent to do so because they receive no training in that area.

In effect, if CQC inspectors are not trained etc., how can they properly inspect?

In the podcast we have covered the following plus much more:

02.01 - Overview of the CQC Report that gave rise to my FOI request

02:40 - The content of my FOI request to CQC

05:12 - CQC's email reply to my FOI request

07:38 - Health & Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014: Regulation 13

08:26 Eric's response

19:32 - Who would be liable if an organisation were advised by a CQC inspector to use a training provider on the BILD Act list. Would it be CQC, BILD or the organisation?

20:40 - Examples of liability, the case of Mr Derek Lovegrove who dies during a restraint at Cedar Vale, post a recommendation by a Health Care Commission inspector that the organisation had to change training provider to one of the (then) BILD PI Traning provider list.

25:48 - The issue surrounding the lack of inclusion of pain-complaince, prone and face-down techniques and the BILD/RRN certification scheme.

28:25 - The problems of remaining certain techniques as 'emergency intervention' or 'emergency escape and rescue techniques' as opposed to calling a technique what is actually is.

35:18 - The problem with organisations allegedly not-recording certain techniques and staff not being allowed to record properly what has happened to meet the illustrate that they are reducing restraint, when in effect that are not. Is that fraud?

36:00 - Care providers main concerns are cost and compliance. So, if they are being actively signposted to the RRN standards by CQC many will possibly see that as a must have when this is not the case?

Everyone who is anyone in CP knows ‘Ginge’, but if you don’t know him here is some info about Ginge.

‘Ginge’ served in the British Army for 18 years, 13 of which were spent in the 22nd Special Air Services Regiment.

During this time, he developed a wide range of skills including counter-terrorism and VIP protection.

Ginge joined the private sector in 1990 and has worked for a number of private security companies operating as an international security consultant.

During his career Ginge has worked for Government officials, multinational companies and senior executives and has become recognised as one of the leading experts in the field of VIP protection and business security.

Over the years Ginge has been responsible for the training of various close protection teams and operated exclusively as a security coordinator within high and low-level personal protection.

During the past 10 years, Ginge has been involved in designing and delivering security awareness and personal safety/conflict management training for high network corporations and families living or travelling to high-risk regions worldwide.

He has operated in virtually every hostile environment on earth. There is literally no-where that Ginge hasn’t operated in.

At one time he was flying around to various parts of the world between five – fifteen times a month on executive protection duties, training assignments and going into environments that the police, national guard and local militia would advise not to or wouldn’t go into. This is how much in demand Ginge’s services where and are.

During those times he has been confronted with many conflict situations which included a knife, and it was his training, knowledge, awareness and experience and skill that kept him and the people he was looking after safe.

Ginge will be joining us on our October BTEC Level 3 Self-Defence Trainer Award Course, which you can find out more about here – https://www.nfps.info/self-defence-trainer-training-october-2020/.

Lofty Wiseman will also be popping along as well so if you are attending our course in October you will get to meet these two ‘living legends’!

Every now and then I come across an agency/organisation that has a 'no-restraint' policy in place and my first question is always, why do you have a policy for something that you don't need to do?

You can read the full blog post here - https://www.nfps.info/no-restraint-policies-whats-your-view-on-them/

This is the audio from a Zoom Masterclass that we did on the 21st May 2020.

It looks at the science behind how and why your thoughts, intentions and meditations can literally change your reality that you experience every day, as well as why some people get stuck in their reality and can never seem to change it.

It builds on Tuesday's session - 'The 4 Levels of Manifestation and 'The Backwards Law''

Enjoy!

This audio is taken from a recent video meeting where Trevel Henry and I discuss the burning question that seems to be on everyone’s lips at the moment, which is “Is There Any Guidance From Anywhere That Indicates When Can We Resume Physical Restraint Training During Covid 19?”

Lots of trainers are now being asked to re-start delivering physical restraint/physical intervention/pmva/mva training and we are both being contacted daily (and sometimes more than once a day) to ask if we know of any guidance that has been issued by any agencies such as the SIA, NHS England, etc.

This audio attempts to answer that question for you.

This is the audio from a video Mastermind session that I ran on the 19th May 2020 in which I discussed the power of manifestation, but also why it doesn't work for some people.

In it we cover the 4 Levels of Manifestation as well as 'The Backwards Law' which the great thinker Alan Watts described as "the more you pursue feeling better all the time, the less satisfied you become" and I'll also explain why that happens.

I'm also going to be sharing with you things that I have never shared before about my personal practice of meditation because I am sure you can imaging that had I done so, when I started doing this over twenty years ago, a lot of people would have thought I was crazy - and after this video, some of you may come to that conclusion too!

I just hope it helps some of you on your journey!

In this video Trevel and I discuss some correspondence we've had from people we have subsequently helped and supported.

In one case this involved a person whose company provides security staff to local authority benefits offices and the questions was asked: "Do you have anything official from the SIA or yourself that outlines How to deal with an Incident keeping Social Distancing? We work for the local council and I have staff in buildings where people attend for benefits etc. As I’m sure you are aware, they turn up under the influence of some form of substance and are not very cooperative. As a result, they have to be ejected from site."

In another case someone works for a healthcare trust and has been told that pmva training has to be delivered because it is classified as "Business Essential". 

I hope you find this useful and as usual, we would welcome any comments below.

My name is Mark Dawes and I have a message for every world leader, every leader of faith, all the media, and all of the great thinkers of our current modern age, so please bear with me on this one. ⁣⁣⁣⁣

⁣We are living in unprecedented times right now. We've never been through anything like this before, but we will come out the other side. ⁣⁣⁣⁣

⁣⁣⁣⁣But while this is going on, there is a wave of negativity happening out there and it's taking people down a path of despair, anxiety, worry and fear. And that path can only lead one place. It's going to lead to a pit of deprivation and a pit of loss. ⁣⁣⁣⁣

⁣⁣⁣⁣Now I'm asking all the great thought leaders of our age, Bob Proctor, Joe Vitale, Tony Robbins, Dean Graziosi, and the rest of you out there. ⁣⁣⁣⁣

⁣⁣⁣⁣I want you to join forces with the world leaders on this planet and the leaders of faith and the media and everyone else out there, just like Napoleon Hill did in 1933 with Franklin D Roosevelt to get America out of the greatest depression that this world had ever seen.⁣⁣⁣⁣

I believe that with your leadership, with your knowledge, with your expertise, we can actually build the greatest mastermind that this planet has ever seen. ⁣⁣⁣⁣

⁣⁣⁣⁣And the reason that is needed right now is if we don't change people's mindsets, if we don't have the world's greatest mastermind to change people's mindsets, to take them upstream, on a mission to be more positive, to have more hope, to actually use that three and a half pounds of infinite intelligence between their ears properly with a DEFINITIVNESS OF PURPOSE and with a PLAN OF ACTION, then the fallout from this pandemic is going to be far worse than the pandemic itself. It will take us into a global recession and depression.⁣⁣⁣⁣

⁣⁣⁣⁣So I'm asking once again for all the world leaders to engage with all the leaders of faith, I want the media to get behind this and I want our great thought leaders, Bob Proctor, Joe Vitale, Tony Robbins, Dean Graziosi, and if I've missed anyone out, please forgive me, but I'm doing this live, so I'm just trying to remember everyone as I go along. ⁣⁣⁣⁣

⁣⁣⁣⁣I want you all to engage and get this MASTERMIND together because I want the press to stop focusing on the negatives of this. ⁣⁣⁣⁣

⁣⁣⁣⁣We need hope. We need inspiration. We need leadership like never before. ⁣⁣⁣⁣

And if we all get behind a common cause to fight a common enemy, and that enemy being negativity, I believe we can change things for the better and come out of this far better people than what we will do if this doesn't happen. ⁣⁣⁣⁣

⁣⁣⁣⁣So please, please someone lead this. Someone make this happen. ⁣⁣⁣⁣

⁣⁣⁣⁣Thank you.⁣⁣⁣⁣

⁣⁣⁣⁣Mark Dawes⁣⁣⁣⁣