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Common principles for safer restraint

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The Common Principles on the Safer Use of Restraint, published in 2013, were developed in conjunction with agencies representing Immigration, prisons, health, youth justice, police and the Restraint Advisory Board

The principles were further amended in consultation with the CQC, Department of Health, Institute of Psychiatry and Royal College of Nursing in August 2012 to ensure that they were also relevant to mental health settings.