This report provides guidance to the Disability Royal Commission in relation to the Commission’s objective to reduce and eliminate restrictive practices. Restrictive practices are at odds with the human rights of people with disability and represent a significant form of violence and coercion.

This submission specifically draws attention to the issues relevant to people with disability in the UN's Draft General Comment of the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT), which does not yet explicitly discuss the unique factors which underpin and shape the deprivation of liberty and treatment of people with disability.

This report provides guidance on the design of accessible and inclusive complaint mechanisms that work as pathways to report violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of people with disability. It also identifies a series of improvements which could be made to existing complaints mechanisms.