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Regulation (regulate)
To check that the activities of a business or organisation are legal and follow official rules or laws.
Stable
A term used in describing a patient's medical status. It indicates that the patient's disease process has not changed precipitously or significantly.
Chemical restraint
Is the intentional use of medication to control or modify a person’s behaviour or to ensure they are compliant or not capable of resistance, when no medically identified condition is being treated; where the treatment is not necessary for the condition; or the intended effect of the drug is to sedate the person for convenience or for disciplinary purposes.
Concern
Information provided by a person which describes circumstances where a person may be at risk.
Social care
The provision of care, protection, psychosocial support and advocacy in partnership with individuals and groups who experience marginalisation, disadvantage or special needs.
Accused
A person who an allegation has been made against.
Allegation of abuse
A statement describing a purported incident of abuse against another person or persons.
Altercation
A hostile or argumentative confrontation that may be either verbal or physical, or both.
Assault
An attack on a person or persons which may include, but are not limited to, verbal, physical or sexual acts.
Bullying
Repeated aggression, verbal, psychological or physical, racial, sexual or relational, conducted by an individual or group against others.
Coercion
To threaten or to use force to get someone to do something they do not want to do.
Institutional abuse
Mistreatment of a person due to the practices of an organisation.