PWDA welcomes the release of the Disability Royal Commission’s Research Report's recommendation to eliminate restrictive practices. As a disability representative organisation of and for people with ...

There has been poor progress on minimising the use of restraint, seclusion and segregation in health and care services in England, 4 years after a major review was launched into the area. In 2018, the ...

A South Australian government aged care home, which looks after 23 people with dementia or complex disabilities, ...

In short: Former judge Jennifer Boland found the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission failed to take action to close a program that was unlawfully restraining children with disabilities. The review ...

The use of restrictive practices in Irish mental health centres has decreased by almost 50% in the past five years, according to a report by the Mental Health Commission (MHC). Restrictive practices ...

The government has asked the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to review the use of restrictive interventions on those with mental health problems and learning disabilities and/or autism in hospitals and ...

A criminologist says people with disability are suffering violence and abuse in group homes People with disability are being strapped down and “chemically castrated” in group homes, the royal ...

The Health Information and Quality Authority found a number of young people with disabilities were living in a highly restrictive environment when inspectors visited earlier this year. The findings ...

Health watchdog Hiqa referred a centre for people with disabilities to the HSE's National Safeguarding Office over an "institutionalised approach" to care, elements of which it claimed "could be ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Disability service providers used unauthorised restraints, such as locking people in their homes and administering potentially harmful ...