Articles

Learning From Incidents and Near Misses: Using Risk Events to Strengthen Enablement in Physical Disability Services

Incidents and near misses often lead to restriction rather than learning in physical disability services. This article explains how providers can use risk events to strengthen positive risk-taking, with governance...

Positive Risk-Taking in Community Access: Supporting Choice, Travel and Participation in Physical Disability Services

Community access is often the first area restricted when risk increases in physical disability services. This article explains how providers can support travel, participation and social inclusion through positive risk-taking,...

Workforce Confidence and Risk Judgement: Training and Supervision for Positive Risk-Taking in Physical Disability Care

Positive risk-taking depends on confident, well-supported staff. This article explains how physical disability services can build workforce confidence and risk judgement through training, supervision and assurance, with real operational examples...

Governance and Oversight of Positive Risk-Taking: What Commissioners and Inspectors Expect in Physical Disability Services

Positive risk-taking must be governed as carefully as safeguarding. This article explains how physical disability services can put effective governance, oversight and assurance around risk enablement, with practical examples and...

Least Restrictive Practice in Physical Disability Services: Reducing Hidden Restrictions Through Risk Enablement

Restrictive practice in physical disability services is often subtle and unintentional. This article explains how providers can identify and reduce hidden restrictions through positive risk-taking, with practical examples, governance controls...

Falls, Mobility and Confidence: Applying Positive Risk-Taking Safely in Physical Disability Services

Falls risk is one of the most common triggers for restrictive practice in physical disability services. This article explains how providers can apply positive risk-taking to mobility and falls management,...

Balancing Safeguarding and Autonomy: Managing Risk Without Restricting Independence in Physical Disability Services

Safeguarding and positive risk-taking are often treated as competing priorities in physical disability services. This article explains how providers can manage risk without defaulting to restriction, using real operational examples,...

Embedding Positive Risk-Taking in Care Planning: From Risk Assessments to Day-to-Day Delivery in Physical Disability Services

Risk assessments alone do not deliver positive risk-taking. This article explains how physical disability services can embed risk enablement into care planning and daily delivery, with practical examples, governance controls...

Risk Enablement Under the Care Act: What Positive Risk-Taking Looks Like in Physical Disability Support

The Care Act requires providers to promote wellbeing, choice and control, yet risk is often managed restrictively in physical disability services. This article explains how positive risk-taking aligns with Care...

Positive Risk-Taking in Physical Disability Services: Moving from Risk Avoidance to Proportionate Enablement

Positive risk-taking is widely referenced in policy but inconsistently applied in physical disability services. This article explains how providers can move from risk avoidance to proportionate enablement, using real operational...