Restrictive practices
Alternative labels
Restrictive interventions
Involuntary treatment
Description
Restrictive practices are actions or interventions that have the effect of restricting the rights or freedom of movement of a person with the primary purpose of protecting the person or others from harm. Practices can include: seclusion, chemical restraint, mechanical restraint, physical restraint, restricted access, power control, consequence control.
Submission
Joint Submission: Article 4 of the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture
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.
Guide
National Aged Care Mandatory Quality Indicator Program (QI Program) Manual 3.0 – Part A
Participation in the National Aged Care Mandatory Quality Indicator Program (QI Program) has been a requirement for all approved providers of residential care services since 1 July 2019. This publication is a manual to administer the QI Program's quarterly reporting requirements against eleven quality indicators across crucial care areas and to inform policy and regulation.
Report
Older persons deprived of liberty
This report examines what deprivation of liberty means from the perspective of older persons and how it affects the full enjoyment of their human rights; analyses some of the underlying causes of deprivation of liberty of older persons; highlights the human rights challenges and risks in three specific contexts: criminal justice; immigration-related detention; and care...
Report
The human rights roadmap: 40 ways to operationalise human rights in Victoria's mental health and wellbeing system
This report provides a suite of pragmatic recommendations that are intended to ensure that Victoria’s current and future mental health and wellbeing systems are based on a commitment to promote and uphold human rights, and to focus on the promotion of good mental health and wellbeing.
Submission
Reforming Queensland’s authorisation framework for the use of restrictive practices
This submission considers the use of restrictive practices as a form of behaviour control are often based on the assumption that the problem lies with the individual rather than the systems that control them, and that the solution lies with a restriction of personal freedoms as opposed to structural change.