Providers should only arrange a Quality Assurance Panel after they have all the right documents ready.

This includes having a behaviour support plan.

The behaviour support plan must be up to date.

It must also show how the behaviour support practitioner is working with:

• the person
• the people who support them.

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

They follow the rules in our policy about restrictive practices.

The behaviour support plan must clearly explain:

bullet any restrictive practices it includes

bullet that the restrictive practices can only be used when the person shows a behaviour of concern.end of list

Behaviours of concern are things someone does that might put:

• themselves in danger
• other people in danger.

The behaviour support plan must also support our 5 principles for each restrictive practice.

Principles are important ideas that guide us.

1. Providers must try better ways to support a person before using a restrictive practice.

2. Providers must only use the least restrictive practice to keep people safe.

3. Providers must only use a restrictive practice that lowers the risk of harm to people.

4. Providers must only use a restrictive practice that doesn’t cause more harm than the behaviour.

5. Providers must only use a restrictive practice for the shortest time possible.

Quality Assurance Panels need information about how a provider will:

• use the restrictive practice less over time
• stop using the restrictive practice over time.

This information can be:

• in the behaviour support plan

or

• in a different plan.

Quality Assurance Panels need this information to make decisions about a restrictive practice.