UK Government - Reducing the need for restraint and restrictive intervention (27 June 2019)

Summary

This non-statutory guidance from the UK Government aims to support education, health and care settings and services in putting in place measures which will help them:

• understand the needs of children and young people, including the underlying causes of and triggers for their behaviour.
• develop strategies and plans to meet those needs and regularly review them as children change.
• adapt the environments in which children and young people are taught and cared for so as better to meet their needs.
• provide appropriate support for children and young people whose behaviour challenges, without the use of restraint or restrictive intervention.

It sets out relevant law and guidance and provides a framework of core values and key principles to support:

• a proactive approach to supporting children and young people whose behaviour challenges.
• a reduction in the need to use restraint and restrictive intervention.