Team-Teach has been established in the Asia-Pacific for a number of years and has successfully trained staff from a wide range of education, health and care settings.

It is currently the only established behaviour support training which is based in the Asia-Pacific as a company in its own rights. Team-Teach Asia Pacific training has been delivered in all Australian States and Territories, New Zealand and through the ESF in Hong Kong. There have been around 6000 people been trained and with a network of over 150 Tutors.

Team-Teach Asia-Pacific also maintains strong links with the UK where it originated from and where it is the largest provider of training for mainstream, special, child and increasingly adult services in the UK. There are over 2,000 Tutors nationally having taught between them over 500, 000 people, principally across a wide range of care, education and health service settings, promoting a multi-disciplinary approach between education, social services and health.

The training has evolved from a residential care, education and health background working with service users with a variety of emotional, social, behavioural, learning, communication and medical needs.

Team-Teach provides: a 6 hour Foundation Course (low risk), a 12 hour Basic course (medium risk) and where supported through evidenced health and safety needs Advanced Modules (high risk). The preferred training model is for all staff within medium risk education, care and health service settings to undertake a minimum of a 2-day basic course (12 hours).

Team-Teach prefers to employ a whole staff holistic approach with a follow up post repair, reflect & de-brief response for both staff and service users concerned. · Emphasis being on "calm" communication and defusing skills that work best for the specific individual concerned, acknowledged within the care, behaviour or education plans.

Physical responses are underpinned by values and principles that fit within a culture and ethos of positive educative care. There is an emphasis on individual human rights, responsibilities, choices and consequences.

The key message being that 95% OR MORE of all incidents should be managed without recourse to physical interventions. Following training there should be a decrease in the amount of incidents involving the use of physical interventions. The emphasis is on protecting and promoting positive relationships between service providers and users.