Coroners, courts, regulators and inspectors have recorded what restraint does to the people it is used on. This casebook publishes those records as short, sourced case pages: what happened, what went wrong, and what it means for the people running the service.
Every entry states its confidence, what could not be verified, and where the source runs out. Where a case is still live, we hold it. Where a name cannot be justified, we do not print it. Publications are labelled as publications, because a national count is not an incident.
22 case entries and 8 publications.
Restraint used to force-feed a care home resident
A care worker bound a woman's arms in a nightie so she could be fed, then went to prison for it.
Tied into a chair with his own neck tie
An 86-year-old man with dementia was restrained in a care home chair with a neck tie. The conviction that followed was quashed on appeal.
Held face down for ninety minutes by untrained staff
A care home resident was restrained face down for an hour and a half, released, and found dead in his room.