Call to Ban Hospitals Using Physical Restraint on Kids
Henrietta Cook, State Political Reporter at The Age, 30 October 2013
A mental health commissioner is urging the Napthine government to ban the use of physical restraint on young children, with disturbing images showing a nine-year-old boy with bruises and welts sustained at a Victorian hospital.
A mental health commissioner is urging the Napthine government to ban the use of physical restraint on young children, with disturbing images showing a nine-year-old boy with bruises and welts sustained at a Victorian hospital.
National Mental Health Commissioner Jackie Crowe said children as young as seven were being physically restrained in acute mental health units to control their behaviour.
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