Michelle Griffin offers a personal account of a campaign she embarked on to provide training for parents and main carers of people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour

Training staff and paid carers who support people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour in the use of physical interventions has become accepted practice. However, parents and carers are often left to fend for themselves to manage equivalent behaviours. This article explains how the parents and main carers of adults and children with learning disabilities and seriously challenging behaviour can receive training based on the core concepts of a physical intervention model.