To give you the confidence, knowledge and skills to enable you to safely evade and defend yourself in risky situations.

• Investigate ‘reasonable force’
• Explore the requirements of the Human Rights Act 1998 and how they apply to breakaways
• Examine the requirements of health and safety statute and associated regulations and show how they apply to breakaways
• Identify and describe the relevant Acts of Parliament and other government regulations in relation to breakaways from vulnerable individuals and groups
• Understand the law in relation to the use of physical force for personal defence and the defence of others
• Explain the concepts of ‘reasonable force’, ‘necessity’ and ‘proportionality’
• Explain how legislation and guidance, relating to disengagement, impacts upon work with young people and vulnerable adults
• Demonstrate the appropriate and effective physical skills for breaking away and defending against a violent assault
• Demonstrate methods to protect themselves and others from blows
• Demonstrate how to disengage from grabs and holds
• Know how to deal with clothing grabs
• Understand how to escape from strangles and chokes
• Demonstrate a method to rescue a person from a strangle hold
• Know how to get up from the floor safely
• Understand which techniques should not be used and why