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Project materials and updates

Explore updates, blog posts, downloadable materials and research outputs for the Holding Differently project. Documents, reports and briefings appear here when they are published.

Documents and guidance

Published documents, reports and guidance will appear here as the research develops.

Scottish Guidance on the use of Physical Restraint

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Holding Safely

Holding Safely was initially published in 2005 and updated in 2014 to support residential child care workers, their managers and senior leaders in caring organisations to think through the complexities involved in the…

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Included, Engaged and Involved Part 3: A Relationships and Rights-based Approach to Physical Intervention in Schools

This guidance is for education authorities grant-aided and independent schools in Scotland on the use of physical restraint.

Enhancing a holding environment through reflective practice

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The Reflection and Action Learning Forum

The RALF project support an organisational culture where adults are more likely to feel emotionally safe to keep in mind children and young people when things become overwhelming.

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Falling Apart and Hanging Together: Notes on Resilient Caregiving Organisations

Bill Kahn talking to the SIRCC conference in 2022 about creating holding environments in caring organisations such as residential child care.

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Social Pedagogical Concepts

This series of videos explore 20 concepts familiar to social pedagogues, such as the 3Ps, the relational universe, the Diamond model. Those reflective tools support adults reframe their experiences at work and make se…

Restraint Reduction Efforts

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Developing a Holding Environment in Residential Child Care and Education : A Knowledge Transfer Project between the University of Strathclyde and Seamab to Reduce the Use of Physical Restraint

This report discusses a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) project between the University of Strathclyde and Seamab, a residential child care and education service in Scotland. Using a human rights perspective and k…