What Quality Assurance Panels must check

In this bulletin, we look at what Quality Assurance Panels must check.

A Quality Assurance Panel is a group of people who check behaviour support plans.

They decide if the restrictive practice can happen.

A behaviour support plan is a document that explains what support a person needs.

There are 5 principles in our policy.

Principles are important ideas we should always think about.

Quality Assurance Panels use the principles to:

  • check each restrictive practice
  • decide if restrictive practices can happen.

This will make sure behaviour support plans:

  • keep people safe
  • protect people’s rights.

Rights are rules about how people must treat you:

  • fairly
  • equally.

Behaviour support practitioners work with a person to create the person’s behaviour support plan.

This plan might include restrictive practices.