More information
Additional support
Victorian Senior Practitioner's Office
Phone: (03) 9096 8427
Email: victorianseniorpractitioner@dffh.vic.gov.au
Key contacts
Asking questions & getting help
Report concerns of neglect, harm or abuse
Victorian Dual Disability Service
Resources & references
Department of Families, Fairness & Housing
- Definitions of restrictive practice and regulated restrictive practice(s)
- Disability
- e-Learning modules for Authorised Program Officers
- Environmental restraints animation
- Guidelines for authorising regulated restrictive practices in Victoria (downloads Word doc)
- Guidelines for Supervised Treatment Orders. Australian Government (downloads Word doc)
- Information for Authorised Program Officers
- Physical Restraint Direction Paper and Guidelines (downloads Word doc)
- Practice advice for people who support people who show behaviours of concern
- Prohibited physical restraints animation
- Recognising and reducing mechanical restraint practice guide (downloads Word doc)
- Restrictive Intervention Data System (RIDS) (State-based portal) training
- Supervised Treatment Orders (downloads Word doc)
- Why is that locked? (downloads Word doc)
NDIS Commission
- Legislation, rules and policies
- About the NDIS
- About the NDIS Commission
- NDIS Quality & Safeguards Commission
- NDIS Commission’s positive behaviour support capability framework
- NDIS-based provider portal
- Easy Read positive behaviour support and behaviour support plans (opens PDF doc)
- Easy Read regulated restrictive practices (opens PDF doc)
- Information about unauthorised restrictive practices
- NDIS medication purpose form (opens PDF doc)
- NDIS Code of Conduct
Legislation & regulations
- Disability Act 2006
- Disability Discrimination Act 1992
- National Disability Insurance Scheme Act (2013)
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (Code of Conduct) Rules (2018)
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (Provider Registration and Practice Standards) Rules (2018)
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (Quality Indicators for NDIS Practice Standards) Guidelines (2018)
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (Restrictive Practices and Behaviour Support) Rules (2018)
- Social Services Regulation Act 2021
- Victorian Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Act 2006
International charters
Australia’s obligations under the Convention of the Right of People with Disabilities (CRPD)
Training
Victorian Senior Practitioner
e-Learning modules for Authorised Program Officers
- Authorisation process and key roles
- What are restrictive practices?
- Legislative requirements for the authorisation of restrictive practices
- Restrictive Intervention Data System (RIDS) (State-based portal) training
Key information
- Victorian Social Services Regulator
The Right Direction
Other
- Functionally Equivalent Alternative Behaviors
- Emerson, E., & Einfeld, S. L. (2011). Challenging Behaviour (Third edition)
- McVilly, K. (2002). Positive behaviour support for people with intellectual disability: evidence-based practice, promoting quality of life (P. Foreman, L. Goddard, & S. Bristow, Eds.)