Reducing and Eliminating Restrictive Practices
with Sharon Paley (CEO of the Australian Centre for Restraint Reduction and Elimination)
Restrictive practices remain one of the most complex and contested challenges in care settings. This webinar brings together evidence-based strategy, ethical frameworks, and real-world practice to help your organisation move meaningfully toward elimination.
You'll explore:
- Human rights considerations and the impact on quality of life
- The goal of elimination and least restrictive practice
- Organisational culture and barriers to restraint reduction
- How to promote restraint reduction in a system where the skills are not readily available.
Whether you're a frontline practitioner, team leader, or policy-maker, this session offers tools you can apply immediately.
🗓 Date: 13th April
⏰ Time: 1-2pm AEST (NSW, VIC, TAS, ACT, QLD)
12:30-1:30om (SA, NT)
11am-12pm (WA)
12:30-1:30om (SA, NT)
11am-12pm (WA)
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Sharon Paley
Sharon is a specialist registered nurse with over 40 years’ experience in disability, social care and education in the UK and Australia. She has extensive practice experience having started her career in schools and working as a family support worker.
She has extensive practice experience of working in and managing services for people with intellectual disability and complex needs, including risk behaviour, having also worked within forensic settings. Sharon is the primary author of government policy that has been enacted in the UK and Australia.
She received a Florence Nightingale Scholarship for her work on reducing and eliminating restrictive practice and 3 international awards for her work promoting behaviour support; and was awarded lifetime membership of the British Institute of Learning Disability, BILD in 2012.
Sharon is the elected Vice President of the Professional Association of Nurses in Developmental Disability (PANDDA) and is one of the longest service members of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Positive Behavioural Support.
She lives in semi-rural Queensland, in the rainforest hinterland of Brisbane, with her husband and their Burmese cats. She enjoys walking, time spent with family, especially her grandchildren and will sell her soul for a good lemon meringue pie.
She has extensive practice experience of working in and managing services for people with intellectual disability and complex needs, including risk behaviour, having also worked within forensic settings. Sharon is the primary author of government policy that has been enacted in the UK and Australia.
She received a Florence Nightingale Scholarship for her work on reducing and eliminating restrictive practice and 3 international awards for her work promoting behaviour support; and was awarded lifetime membership of the British Institute of Learning Disability, BILD in 2012.
Sharon is the elected Vice President of the Professional Association of Nurses in Developmental Disability (PANDDA) and is one of the longest service members of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Positive Behavioural Support.
She lives in semi-rural Queensland, in the rainforest hinterland of Brisbane, with her husband and their Burmese cats. She enjoys walking, time spent with family, especially her grandchildren and will sell her soul for a good lemon meringue pie.