Coroners, regulators, courts and inspectors have documented what happens when restraint, lone working or aggression at work goes wrong. We publish those findings as short, sourced case pages: what happened, what went wrong, and what it means for the people running the service.
Lone Worker Casebook
Home visits, live-in care, night shifts, hostel work and lone security, where one person was on their own.
Restraint Casebook
Restraint injuries and deaths, and the technique that caused them: prone holds, seated holds, seclusion, and the monitoring that failed.
Restrictive practices in education
Restraint, seclusion and isolation rooms in schools and colleges: inspectorate findings, SEND tribunals, civil claims and inquests.
Staff injuries through violence at work
Nurses, teachers, shop workers, drivers and custody staff injured by the people they serve, where the injury was recorded in a tribunal, claim or prosecution.
The record so far
Counted on the two casebook pages, 6 November 2026. The publications are counted inside the restraint entries.
How each entry is built
- Source. The inquest, the prosecution, the regulator’s notice or the employer’s own investigation.
- Confidence. Every page says what could not be verified and where the source runs out.
- Status. Where a case is still live, it is held back.