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Restraint

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CQC Glossary of terms used in the guidance for providers and managers

Care Quality Commission

In Regulation 13 of The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014, a person controls or restrains a person using services by:
- Using, or threatening to use, force to enable them to carry out something that the person using the service resists, or
- Restricting the person's liberty of movement, whether or not they resist, including by using physical, mechanical or chemical means.

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