Thrive Behaviour Support Services

30/09/2026

💭 Functional Equivalent Behaviours - are we teaching a different behaviour, or meeting the same need?

One of the things I really value about Positive Behaviour Support is the focus on understanding why a behaviour is happening.

Rather than simply trying to stop a behaviour, we need to ask:

🔎 What need is the person trying to communicate?
💬 What are they trying to achieve?
🧠 What skill could we teach that helps them meet that same need in a safer, more effective way?

This is where functional equivalents come in.

For example, if someone leaves an environment because they are overwhelmed, the goal isn’t to “stop them leaving”.

It might be about teaching and supporting a way to communicate “I need a break”, while also making sure the environment and support around the person are meeting their needs.

A functional equivalent should be meaningful, realistic, achievable and functional for the individual - not just convenient for the people supporting them.

For me, PBS is about moving from:

“How do we stop this behaviour?”

to:

“What is this behaviour telling us, and what can we teach or change to help?”

Because when we understand the function, we can start creating support that genuinely works with the person, not just on the behaviour. 💚

08/09/2026

We’ve had an upgrade🤭 the website has had a complete overhaul and an update, making it clearer and easier to read.

Check it out, if there are any services that I can help your service, family or person you’re supporting, I would love to hear from you💫

Person-centred Positive Behaviour Support for individuals, families, care providers and professionals across the UK.

27/08/2026

Does the terminology we use in PBS plans actually help the people who need to use them?💭

PBS plans need to be professionally sound, but they also need to be understood by the staff implementing them.

If a support worker picks up a plan and has to Google terminology before they understand what they’re supposed to do, we’ve already created a barrier to implementation.

I’ve even experienced this myself as a practitioner. I’ve gone into roles where I’ve had to Google terms used by previous practitioners just to understand the plan.

It made me think: if practitioners have to decode a plan, what are we expecting from busy support staff?

A good PBS plan should allow staff to pick it up and know:

* What do I need to do?
* When do I do it?
* Why am I doing it?

And if we’re genuinely co-producing plans with the people we support, shouldn’t they be able to understand what we’ve written about them too?

Professional terminology has its place, but being technical shouldn’t come at the expense of being accessible.

For me, the best PBS plan isn’t the one that sounds the most professional.

It’s the one that people can understand, agree with, and actually implement.

What are your thoughts on terminology in PBS plans?

Have you ever come across a plan that was technically sound but difficult to actually use? What are your thoughts of terminology used in PBS plans?👇🏼

26/08/2026

Digital incident reporting and behaviour recording platform💫

After spending over 15 years working in health and social care, I’ve seen first-hand how much time is spent completing incident reports, recording behaviours of concern and then trying to extract useful data for reviews, audits and inspections.
That’s why I’ve developed something new.

I’ve built a simple, intuitive digital incident reporting and behaviour recording platform, designed specifically for care providers and support services.

The platform aims to:
👉🏼Reduce paperwork and administrative time
👉🏼Make incident and behaviour recording quicker and easier
👉🏼Improve the quality and consistency of data
👉🏼Identify patterns and monitor interventions
👉🏼Provide quick, real-time reports and insights - data by date range, person,
👉🏼Support organisations in meeting CQC and Ofsted expectations

The platform allows you to capture key information including;
🌟The person,
🌟Triggers,
🌟Behaviour,
🌟Outcomes and
🌟Any restrictive practice or intervention used,
🌟And more all in one place.

NAMES OF THE INDIVIDUALS ARE MADE UP. To show that the app will look like in practice.

If this sounds like something your organisation or service could benefit from, I'd be happy to arrange a short, informal conversation.

📩Drop me a message or and email [email protected]

19/08/2026

A re-introduction, what do I do at Thirve Behaviour Support?

Empowering Teams. Improving Lives. 🌱

Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) isn’t just about responding to behaviour — it’s about creating the right environments, building staff capability, and supporting people to thrive.

At Thrive Behaviour Support, I work alongside organisations to strengthen teams and embed practical, compassionate and trauma-informed approaches to PBS.

My services include:

✨ PBS training and capability development
🔎 Behaviour and contextual assessment
📋 Bespoke PBS planning and reducing restrictive practice
📊 Auditing and continuous improvement
🤝 Modelling, coaching and on-site support
💭 Debriefing and reflective practice

My aim is simple: to help organisations create capable teams, confident practice and better outcomes for the people they support.

If your organisation is looking to strengthen its approach to PBS, reduce restrictive practices, or build staff confidence and capability, I’d love to connect.

🌿 Helping organisations implement PBS through capable environments and mindset.

12/08/2026

What if incident reporting could be simpler? 💭

Too often, valuable staff time is lost to paper-based incident reporting, lengthy admin, manually pulling together data or completing forms that do t give you the full overview of what really happened.

Having worked in many services, trying to pull instant data, quickly or being provided a system that gave you everything you needed from time and date, to restrictive practice and safeguarding

I’v been building something that can support with all of that💡

A simple, accessible tool designed to help services:

⏱️ Save valuable staff time
📄 Reduce paperwork
⚡ Record behaviours quicker and easier
📊 Improve data quality and consistency

Because better data shouldn’t mean more admin, it should mean better outcomes.

I’m now looking to speak with a small number of forward-thinking organisations and/or services who would be interested in a system that can give you everything you need at the click of a finger.

Pulling last minute data for a local authority review, and CQC or Ofsted inspection, this system can provide you with that.

If this sounds like something your service could benefit from, I’d love to hear from you.

📩 [email protected]

Let’s move from managing behaviour to supporting people.

03/07/2026

📊 Data doesn’t change behaviour. What we do with the data does.

One of the biggest misconceptions I hear is that data collection in Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) is just about recording incidents.

It isn’t.

Data is one of the most powerful tools we have to understand behaviour and improve a person’s quality of life. Without it, we’re relying on opinions, assumptions, or memory rather than evidence.

Good data helps us:
✅ Identify patterns and triggers.
✅ Understand the function of behaviour.
✅ Measure whether support strategies are actually working.
✅ Make informed, person-centred decisions.
✅ Reduce restrictive practices.
✅ Demonstrate meaningful outcomes over time.

But data isn’t only useful when developing a PBS plan.

It can also be used to:
☑️Review the effectiveness of interventions.
☑️Monitor changes following medication, health, or environmental changes.
☑️Inform multidisciplinary team discussions.
☑️Support safeguarding and quality assurance processes.
☑️Provide evidence during funding or care reviews.
☑️Identify where teams may need additional training or support.

The purpose of data collection isn’t to fill in forms or tick boxes.

It’s to ask better questions, make better decisions, and provide better support.

Because in PBS, every piece of data should help us understand the person, not just the behaviour.

How does your organisation use data to improve outcomes rather than simply record incidents? I’d love to hear your thoughts. 👇











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02/07/2026

PBS is not an intervention. It’s a framework.

This is a distinction that’s often misunderstood.

An intervention is a specific strategy or action used to support someone. It might involve teaching a new skill, adapting the environment, using visual supports, or introducing communication tools.

Positive Behaviour Support (PBS), however, is much broader. It is an evidence-based, person-centred framework that seeks to understand why behaviours occur and how we can improve a person’s quality of life.

Rather than simply asking, “How do we stop this behaviour?”, PBS asks:

☑️What is the person communicating?
☑️What need is this behaviour meeting?
☑️How can we support them more effectively?

The interventions we use are just one part of a PBS plan. They are informed by understanding the function of behaviour, the person’s strengths, preferences, environment, and goals.

Think of it this way:

👉An intervention is a tool, a single thing
👉PBS is the blueprint that helps us choose the right tools for the right reasons.

When we understand this difference, we move away from managing behaviour and towards supporting people to live meaningful, fulfilling lives.

What are your thoughts? Have you come across this misconception in practice?👇

29/06/2026

🚀 We're looking to discuss with a few care providers, organisations, and/or services...

Are you still using paper-based incident reporting or struggling to pull the data you need quickly and in real time? Or are you looking for a smarter, quicker way to record incidents and behaviours of concern?

Having worked in services for 15 years, we understand how time consuming it can be to complete reports, and then pull the data for this, especially when we are asked to pull data for urgent reviews.

We have been developing something that we believe could make a real difference in your service or organisation by:
✅ Reducing paperwork
✅ Saving staff valuable time
✅ Making behaviour recording quicker, easier, and more accessible
✅ Improving the quality and consistency of behaviour data and outcomes
✅ CQC and Ofsted compliment, inline with national guidance

We're looking to speak with a small number of care providers, organisations and/or services to gather feedback and discuss what we're building before launch.

If this sounds like something you could benefit from, we'd love to have a conversation.

📩 Drop us a message or leave a comment below, and we'll be in touch.

19/06/2026

🌉 Bridging the Implementation Gap in Positive Behaviour Support

Training staff in PBS is important. Embedding PBS into everyday practice is transformational✨

Most services don’t struggle because they lack knowledge about Positive Behaviour Support (PBS).

They struggle because turning good intentions, policies, and training into consistent day-to-day practice is hard.

The implementation gap is the space between:
📚 What we know works
and
🏠 What happens in real-life services every day

We know that PBS improves quality of life, increases participation, reduces restrictive practices, and supports meaningful outcomes. Yet many organisations and services face challenges such as competing priorities, staffing pressures, limited resources, inconsistent practice, and lack of ongoing support.

Bridging this gap requires more than training alone.

It requires:
✅ Strong leadership
✅ Skilled and supported staff
✅ Consistent coaching and reflection
✅ Person-centred cultures
✅ Practical systems that embed PBS into everyday routines
✅ Meaningful involvement of the people we support and those important to them

PBS isn’t something we do occasionally, it’s a mindset we should have to ensure that it is something that is always used.

It should be visible in every interaction, every decision, every support plan, and every environment we create.

When organisations commit to implementation, not just intention, we move beyond compliance and create services where people can truly thrive.

How is your service working to bridge the implementation gap?👇