Resource Category People With Lived Experience
Legal Support on behalf of relative with a learning Disability
A new resource is available from The Challenging Behaviour Foundation for families of people detained in inpatient settings seeking specialist legal advice to understand their rights and challenge any breach to these rights. RRN Manager, Alexis Quinn welcomed the resource saying “This…
RRN How I Should Be Cared for in a Mental Health Hospital Resources
Being in a psychiatric hospital can be worrying and unsettling for both the person going into hospital and for their family and loved ones. There are often many rules and things that can be difficult to understand. These resources let…
RRN Restraint Inequalities Toolkit
The new RRN Inequalities Toolkit was commissioned by NHS England in support of its work seeking to reduce the use of restrictive practices. Research has shown that certain groups of people are more likely to be experience restraint than others.…
RRN Psychological Restraint Resources
The Restraint Reduction Network was commissioned by Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust to develop a new resource toolkit on Psychological Restraint. The toolkit aims to define and explain the phenomenon of psychological restraint and provide tools to…
RRN Surveillance Resources
The Restraint Reduction Network, in partnership with the British Institute of Human Rights, has launched new resources aimed at helping individuals and organisations take a rights-based approach to the use of surveillance. The resources include an in depth plain English…
RRN Blanket Restrictions resource toolkit
In autumn 2019, a National Quality Improvement Taskforce was established to improve current specialist children and young people’s inpatient mental health, autism and learning disability services in England. The Taskforce seeks to make a rapid set of improvements in care,…