Reduction goals
Set baselines, targets, owners and review dates, then record progress and context.
LESS RESTRICTION. BETTER EVERYDAY LIVES.
Six strategies.
One shared direction.
Better data helps us ask better questions. Meaningful change happens when leadership, lived experience, staff development and reflection turn those questions into better support.
PRISM Insight supports organisations working towards the Six Core Strategies championed by the Restraint Reduction Network. Here is how the platform’s features can help your team put each one into practice.
01
Lead the change
Leadership Towards Organizational Change
Make reducing restrictive practices a visible organisational priority, with named responsibility, meaningful goals and regular review.
Insight brings goals, actions and service-level information together so leaders can review what has changed and what still needs attention.
Accountable follow-up
Turn learning into assigned actions with deadlines, completion evidence and review.
Organisation-wide oversight
Compare services and periods using incident, intervention and outcome reports.
Traceable decisions
Retain record versions, reviewer decisions and an audit trail.
02
Listen and act together
Full Inclusion of Lived Experience
Include people, families and advocates in understanding support and deciding what should change. Record how their contribution made a difference.
Insight gives everyday experiences, preferences and positive outcomes a place alongside incidents, with accessible updates to support discussion.
Lived-experience contributions
Record what matters, communication adjustments, requested changes and how the team responded.
Quality of life
Capture choice, enjoyment, engagement and meaningful activity, including the person’s own words.
My support updates
Create short, visual support updates with the person and check that they make sense to them.
Protected sharing
Share selected reviewed updates through expiring, code-protected links and record recipient acknowledgement.
03
Understand the whole picture
Using Data to Inform Practice
Use consistent records and thoughtful analysis to understand patterns, question assumptions and assess whether support is improving.
Insight connects structured observations with analysis and source records. Positive outcomes and recorded restrictions can be considered together.
ABC observations
Record setting events, antecedents, behaviour, consequences and the support that helped.
Tally, trend and comparison
Choose one or two fields, swap axes, inspect charts and compare equal-length periods.
Time and place
Explore person, location, weekday and hour patterns, then open the original records.
Individual outcomes
Use locally defined rating anchors, attendance and activity records to broaden the evidence.
04
Build confident, consistent support
Workforce Development
Identify what staff need to know and do, support their development, and check how learning changes everyday practice.
Insight connects coaching and competency evidence with plan reading, incident reflection and practitioner-led adherence reviews.
Training and coaching
Record development needs, learning activity, observed practice and refresher dates.
Plan adherence reviews
Compare the recorded response with an agreed plan and document context, learning and follow-up.
Read and sign
Keep staff acknowledgement and drawn signatures with the PBS plan being used.
Staff involvement analysis
Explore involvement in recorded incidents as a starting point for supportive discussion, with context.
05
Make prevention practical
Use of Seclusion and Restraint Reduction Tools
Use person-specific assessment, prevention and review tools to improve support and reduce reliance on restrictive responses.
Insight keeps functional assessment, support plans, skills teaching and restriction reviews connected to the person.
Functional assessment
Gather observations, health and environmental context, preferences and working hypotheses.
PBS and proactive plans
Keep prevention, communication, early support and recovery strategies accessible to staff.
Restriction reduction register
Review rationale, decision-making evidence, alternatives and practical steps to reduce or remove restrictions.
Skills and behaviour scales
Define individual signs of wellbeing and distress, and plan skills teaching with prompt fading.
06
Reflect, support and follow through
Debriefing Techniques
Provide support after incidents, create opportunities for reflection and make sure learning changes future practice.
Insight links immediate support, reflective debriefs and review stages with owned actions and updated support.
Immediate support
Record wellbeing support and the immediate debrief alongside the incident.
Reflective debriefs
Capture experiences, what helped, what could improve and agreed learning.
Structured review
Use first-level, PBS and management review stages to check the response and follow-up.
Close the learning loop
Assign actions, track due dates and document the effect of changes on support.
FROM EVIDENCE TO EVERYDAY CHANGE
See how it fits your service.
Explore how your team could connect recording, review and restraint-reduction work in one platform.
Request a demonstration ↗Framework reference: Restraint Reduction Network — Six Core Strategies. The original Six Core Strategies were developed by NASMHPD. This page presents PRISM Insight’s own feature mapping, using the headings and order shown above. Software supports implementation; it does not establish achievement of the strategies. PRISM Insight is not presented as endorsed or certified by the RRN.