Issues paper - Restrictive practices (Auslan)

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This video in Auslan is about the Issues paper on restrictive practices.

 

Restrictive practices issues paper

We are the Disability Royal Commission.

We have written an issues paper on an important topic. We invite you to respond.

Your responses will help us in our work.

We are interested in the use of restrictive practices on people with disability.

Restrictive practices stop a person from moving around freely, or how they want.

Restrictive practices include seclusion, for example, locking a person in a room.

Restrictive practices also include using restraints.

Examples of retrains might be holding a person down on the ground so they cannot move in hospital.

Or using medication to change their behaviour.

Or tying a person to a chair in a classroom or locking a fridge in a group home to stop a person from accessing it.

Or always telling a person that doing an activity is too dangerous even if it isn't.

Restrictive practices can hurt a person.

They can cause physical or psychological harm.

They may even cause death.

Approaches to restrictive practices

There are lots of laws and policies about restrictive practices.

There are national agreements to try to reduce or stop the use of restrictive practices in Australia.

The National Disability Insurance Scheme has rules about restrictive practices.

Many people believe restrictive practices are not needed.

Other people believe that they are sometimes needed to protect people from harming themselves or others.

Research shows that restrictive practices can be prevented or avoided.

Questions

This issues paper includes 13 questions.

These questions ask about different things such as:

  • Where, when, how and why are restrictive practices used on people with disability?
  • What is the impact of restrictive practices?
  • Are restrictive practices needed?
  • What rules should there be around restrictive practices?
  • What alternatives are there to restrictive practices?

Your response

You do not have to answer every question.

You can respond in any way you like.

You can respond in writing or by a video recording.

To read the full issues paper, and for more details on how to respond, go to the Policy & Research section on our website.

Thank you.