What are restrictive practices?

Restrictive practices are ways to stop people with disability from hurting themselves or others.

Your carers and support workers might need to use restrictive practices to stop you hurting yourself or other people.

Restrictive practices can include:

• putting you into a room or a space you can’t get out of

• holding you so you can’t move

• using equipment that stops you from moving

• stopping you from going into a room or space you want to be in

• stopping you from getting things you want

• giving you medicine that controls your behaviour – what you do.

Restrictive practices should be the very last thing your carer or support worker does to stop you hurting yourself or other people.

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