Resource Pack for Raising Awareness of Restrictive Practice
This educational resource pack has been designed and tested by people with lived experience and their carers, and is to be used by carers in Wales who support people with a learning disability.
The pack provides the opportunity to raise awareness of restrictive practices to people with a lived experience in an engaging way that helps people understand their rights and best practice.
The interactive learning session is designed to be accessible to people with a lived experience and deliverable by anyone with a working understanding of restrictive practices. Further details can be found in the Welsh Government Reducing Restrictive Practice Framework.
What is a restrictive practice?
‘Restrictive practices are a wide range of activities that stop individuals from doing things that they want to do or encourages them to do things that they don’t want to do. They can be very obvious or very subtle.’ (Care Council for Wales, 2016)
This term covers a wide range of activities that restrict people. It includes:
- physical restraint
- chemical restraint
- environmental restraint
- mechanical restraint
- seclusion or enforced isolation
- long term segregation
- coercion
The aim of the pack is to explore:
-
the seven types of restrictive practices
- when it is lawful to use restrictive practices
- how the law protects you and what your rights are
How to use this resource pack
Download and present the presentation to your audience.
Download and print the restrictive practice pictures for the activity.
Activity opportunity
This is an opportunity for 1:1 and or group discussion.
Slides 5 to 14 of the presentation cover the types of restrictive practice and allows the use of images to explore what might be a restriction
Take an A3 piece of paper and divide it into seven squares (one for each restrictive practice) and label each square with the type of restrictive practice.
The group can work through the pictures and place them in the column they feel it relates to. Use this opportunity to discuss thoughts/opinions/experiences.
