The risk of carrying out physical Intervention:

• May cause discomfort or distress to the client.
• May cause pain or injury.
• It may create mistrust and undermine relationships.
• It can become a routine rather than an exceptional method of managing the behaviour.
• It can increase the risk of abuse.
• Undermines the service user’s dignity and can be degrading or humiliating.
• It can trigger negative thoughts, feelings and behaviour.

The risk of not intervening:

• Someone suffers injury or harm, this could be the client displaying the behaviour, staff members or third party (other clients)
• Negligence in our duty of care to another service user.