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

Access This Resource >

Consolidated Six Core Strategies Document – NASMHPD

Access This Resource >

Freedom from coercion, violence and abuse – World Health Organization

Access This Resource >

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

Access This Resource >

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

Access This Resource >

INVOLVE resources – NIHR

Access This Resource >

Legal Support on behalf of relative with a learning Disability

Access This Resource >

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

Access This Resource >

Mental Health Act focus on restrictive intervention reduction 2018

Access This Resource >

Minimising use of restraint in care homes – SCIE

Access This Resource >

National Measure of Environmental Restraint

Access This Resource >

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

Access This Resource >

Positive approaches: reducing restrictive practices in social care

Access This Resource >

Positive cultures of care Massachusetts Department of Mental Health

Access This Resource >

Practice Leadership infographic (Bild)

Access This Resource >

Promoting less restrictive practice – Local Government Association, 2016

Access This Resource >

Reducing restrictive intervention of children and young people – CBF

Access This Resource >

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

Access This Resource >

ResTRAIN yourself toolkit – International Journal of Mental Health Nursing

Access This Resource >

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

Access This Resource >

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

Access This Resource >

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

Access This Resource >

Rights based standards for children undergoing clinical procedures Edgehill University

Access This Resource >

RRN Blanket Restrictions resource toolkit

Access This Resource >

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

Access This Resource >

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

Access This Resource >

RRN Post-Incident Debriefing and Support Toolkit

Access This Resource >

RRN POWER Principles

Access This Resource >

RRN Psychological Restraint Resources

Access This Resource >

RRN Psychological Restraint Webinar July 2023

Access This Resource >

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

Access This Resource >

RRN Restraint Inequalities Toolkit

Access This Resource >

RRN Six Core Strategies infographic

Access This Resource >

RRN Social Connectivity Toolkit

Access This Resource >

RRN Surveillance – A Rights-Based Approach

Access This Resource >

RRN Surveillance Resources

Access This Resource >

RRN Towards Safer Services

Access This Resource >

RRN Training Standards Certification Scheme Handbook

Access This Resource >

School based violence prevention – World Health Organization

Access This Resource >

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

Access This Resource >

Solitary Confinement

Access This Resource >

STOMP positioning paper – Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2021

Access This Resource >

The RRN Relational Model of Coproduction

Access This Resource >

Understanding behaviour in the early years – CBF

Access This Resource >

We need to talk about restraint video

Access This Resource >

Why Do They Hurt? Short film from Early Intervention Project

Access This Resource >