Restraint in Sheffield - Keep Safe and Know your Rights
In Sheffield we developed an accessible booklet for people with a learning disability called 'Restraint in Sheffield - Keep Safe and Know your Rights'
This booklet is for adults with learning disabilities who
This booklet is for adults with learning disabilities who
- get support from the Joint Learning Disabilities Service
- get support from another organisation, and the Joint Learning Disabilities Service pay
It is about how you and staff can help you stay safe and stop you if you or other people are going to get hurt. You can download the accessible booklet at the bottom of the page.
The Joint Learning Disabilities Service has also produced guidance for staff on the prevention and management of the use of restraint. You can download this guidance at the bottom of the page.
What’s this booklet about: I want to be safe. But sometimes things happen that put me in danger.
Or put other people in danger.
I want people to know how to help me –
so I and other people stay safe.
This booklet is about how myself and staff can help me stay safe – and stop me if I’m going to get myself or other people hurt. (1.53 MB)
Download the guidance for staff on the prevention and management of use of restraint (261 KB)
