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Know how to recognise and report unsafe practices

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Visit the webpage below, which is part of the Social Care TV website. The page contains a 10-minute video called ‘Restraint: a human rights issue. Watch the video and make notes about how potentially unsafe practices and ways of thinking were or could be changed. What can you learn from watching the video?

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Read ‘Death by indifference’ published by Mencap. Make notes about poor practice that was observed in the cases identified. Consider the number of different professionals who failed the patients concerned and how they might have acted differently to report poor practice.
Read the short article about ‘Concerns about yours or someone else’s safety’ on the SCIE website.
Read the information sheet ‘Managing Risk, Minimising Restraint’ published by the Social Care Institute for Excellence.

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