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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.

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