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We want to make sure people in WA are safe.

So we need rules about how providers can use some types of supports.

A provider supports people with disability by delivering a service.

Sometimes providers use restrictive practices to keep:

• a person with disability safe

• other people safe.

Restrictive practices are actions that stop people from:

• moving
• doing what they want.

We wrote a policy so everyone knows what rules we have about restrictive practices.

A policy is a government plan for how to do things.

We call it the Authorisation of Restrictive Practices in Funded Disability Services Policy.

We wrote our bulletins to share information about:

• our policy

• research about positive behaviour support.

Positive behaviour support is about supporting a person with disability to live a good life.

Positive behaviour support is about working together to:

• understand someone’s behaviour
• meet their needs
• provide the right support to them.

This includes:

• asking questions
• being open to their experiences.

Providers can use positive behaviour support to help them:

• use less restrictive practices
• stop using restrictive practices.

Positive behaviour support is about helping:

• people who need supports

and

• the people around them.

Positive behaviour support works best when everyone:

• listens to what a person with disability wants and needs
• works together.

There are 12 ideas about the best way to use positive behaviour support.

These ideas come from research called Positive Behaviour Support in the UK: A state of the Nation Report by Nick Gore and other researchers.

The researchers split the 12 ideas about positive behaviour support into 3 areas:

In each bulletin we explain one of the 12 ideas in more detail.

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