The report describes restrictive practices as physical, chemical or environmental restraints and seclusion that are legally, socially or professionally sanctioned. The report also includes involuntary health treatment, guardianship, financial management, and any other non-consensual or coercive action against an individual’s will as a restrictive practice. It concludes that restrictive practices are at odds with the human rights of people with disability.
The report has an eight point plan to stop restrictive practices including:
- making restrictive practices illegal
- changing attitudes towards disability
- acknowledging and addressing historical and ongoing injustice that come from the use of restrictive practices
- de-institutionalising and de-segregating all environments
- recognising the autonomy and leadership of people with disability
- using trauma-informed approaches
- adequately resourcing independent living and full inclusion
- providing redress to fix injustice.
The report looks at a number of real life case studies and the success of international approaches to ending restrictive practices.
Download report (off-site)- Topics:
- violence, Abuse and Neglect
- Author:
- University of Melbourne, University of Technology Sydney and University of Sydney
- Date published:
- Tue 25th Jul, 2023