Resources

Download free resources providing guidance on reducing restrictive practices within services.

Discover resources useful to a person with lived experience of restraint or a family carer here.

The RRN strives to provide accurate, well-researched, practical information that is of use to a wide range of stakeholders, including people that work in services and those with lived experience of restraint. Our resources and discussion documents aim to promote best practice in restraint reduction, offering new ideas, suggestions and solutions to improve practice and reduce restraint.

Please note that RRN resources are not intended to constitute legal advice. We update our work and resources as the latest understanding evolves.

8 Types of Restraint

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Artwork depicting experience of Long Term Segregation and Seclusion

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Blanket Restrictions

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Buddies Project

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Consolidated Six Core Strategies Document – NASMHPD

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Focusing on the legal framework, protecting human rights whilst managing isolation and social distancing

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Freedom from coercion, violence and abuse – World Health Organization

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Guide to reducing restrictive practice in mental health settings – Mersey Care, 2017

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Homes not hospitals video

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Human Rights Officer Role

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Inequalities and the use of restrictive practices

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Interim report: Review of restraint, prolonged seclusion and segregation for people with a mental health problem, a learning disability and or autism – Care Quality Commission 2019

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INVOLVE resources – NIHR

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Legal Support on behalf of relative with a learning Disability

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Let’s talk about restraint – Royal College of Nursing, 2008

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Maintaining human rights and wellbeing for people who are subject to additional restrictions

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Marking the launch of the Welsh Reducing Restrictive Practice Framework

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Mental Health Act focus on restrictive intervention reduction 2018

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Minimising use of restraint in care homes – SCIE

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Narratives Around Children with Challenging Behaviour: A site for culture change in education?

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NASS Training Standards

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National Measure of Environmental Restraint

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No Safe Place: Restraint and Seclusion in Scotland’s Schools – Children and Young People’s Commissioner of Scotland, 2018

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Positive approaches: reducing restrictive practices in social care

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Positive cultures of care Massachusetts Department of Mental Health

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Practice Leadership infographic (Bild)

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Promoting a culture of minimal restrictions in a time of increased restriction

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Promoting less restrictive practice – Local Government Association, 2016

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Psychological Restraint

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Raising the Standards

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Reach Out – Learning Disabilities and Autism Buddies Project

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Reducing restrictive intervention of children and young people – CBF

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Reducing restrictive practices in a secure service by using positive behaviour support

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Reducing restrictive practices through the No Force First programme

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Reducing the need for restraint and restrictive intervention – HM Government, 2019

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Reducing the use of Blanket Restrictions

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Reduction of long-term Psychotropic use for Behaviour Management: The Bermuda experience

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ResTRAIN yourself toolkit – International Journal of Mental Health Nursing

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Restraint and Seclusion in School – US Department of Education, 2012

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Restrictive Interventions in Inpatient Intellectual Disability Services – Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2018

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Restrictive Practices: A Pathway to Elimination – Royal Commission, Australia

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Rights based standards for children undergoing clinical procedures Edgehill University

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Rights, consent and least restrictive approaches to the Covid19 vaccination rollout

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Rights, consent and least restrictive approaches to the COVID19 vaccination rollout (part 2)

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RRN Blanket Restrictions resource toolkit

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RRN Department for Education consultation on restrictive practices in schools

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RRN Guidance for Government Departments 2023: 11 Key Principles to Inform Government Policy

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RRN How I Should Be Cared for in a Mental Health Hospital Resources

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RRN Post-Incident Debriefing and Support Toolkit

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RRN POWER Principles

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RRN Psychological Restraint Resources

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RRN Psychological Restraint Webinar July 2023

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RRN Psychotropic Medication in Children and Young People’s Mental Health Inpatient Services August 2022

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RRN Restraint Inequalities Toolkit

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RRN Six Core Strategies infographic

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RRN Social Connectivity Toolkit

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RRN Surveillance – A Rights-Based Approach

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RRN Surveillance Resources

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RRN Towards Safer Services

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RRN Training Standards Certification Scheme Handbook

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Safewards

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School based violence prevention – World Health Organization

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Shaping V2 of the RRN Training Standards

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Shining a light on seclusion and restraint in schools in Ireland: The experience of children with disabilities and their families – Inclusion Ireland, 2018

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Solitary Confinement

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Solitary Confinement and Recommendations from Baroness Hollins’ 2023 Report

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STOMP positioning paper – Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2021

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Successful Approaches to Reducing Physical Interventions and Fixed Term Exclusions

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Support for carers and the people they are supporting

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Supporting menstrual health

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Surveillance – a rights-based approach

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Swansea Bay: Physical Intervention RR and COVID-19

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The Elephant Sitting Behind the Elephant in the room

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The impact of organisational climates and cultures on critical incidents and the use of restraints

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The RRN Relational Model of Coproduction

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The RRN Training Standards: what service providers need to know

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The six core strategies of restraint reduction

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Towards Safer Services

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Trauma Informed Practice

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Understanding behaviour in the early years – CBF

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Understanding Key Intervention Components

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Using data to influence, manage and reduce restrictive practices

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Version 2 of the RRN training standards

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Version 2 of the RRN training standards

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We need to talk about restraint video

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What can we learn from the way we have been supporting people through the COVID19 crisis that we could carry on using in future?

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What’s in a name: seclusion, isolation, long term segregation or solitary confinement?

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Why Do They Hurt? Short film from Early Intervention Project

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Working alongside people with lived experience to inform restraint reduction planning

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Working with the Mental Health Act Code of Practice and Mental Capacity Act

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