Using restrictive practices

Carers and support workers need consent before they can use restrictive practices.

When you give your consent, you say it is okay for someone to do something.

If you can make your own decisions, you can give consent for your carer or support worker to use restrictive practices.

If you can’t make your own decisions, your guardian might give consent for restrictive practices to be used.

There are things we must think about before we give your guardian the power to decide if restrictive practices can be used.

They include:

• what you want

• what it says in your Behaviour Support Plan

• any information we get from:
  • your family
  • your friends
  • your carers
  • health care services you use
  • service providers you use

• other ways we can stop you hurting yourself or other people

• any other rules that must be followed.

If giving you medicine could be the best way to control your behaviour, we will make sure we know:

• which medicine you need
• how much you should have
• how to give it to you
• when to give it to you
• what other things the medicine might do to you.

We will put restrictive practices in your guardianship order if it is the best choice.

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