The C&R training was originally developed alongside that for the Prison Service. The air fair stank of testosterone and the environment was, as you can imagine, massively macho. It was an acknowledged fact that after a team of care staff had been trained in a hospital, the number of physical restraints escalated for a short period, presumably indicative of the hyped up, wanting to be “blooded” state induced in the trainees. We were trained to teach the techniques over a period of five days. The training was focused entirely on physical skills. We would teach staff to restrain and relocate violent individuals to a safe place and then we would say to them “and this is where would use your communication skills.”