Workshop Agenda

• What enforcement has cost: Oak Tasmania [2026] FCA 7
• The reasonable steps expected of key personnel
• The Commission's 2026-27 priorities and what changed in 2026

Practical activity: Score your system on eight statements. Tables choose the two weakest areas to target.

Toolkit: System Self-Score

• What is a reportable incident, and what does it mean for your organisation?
• Your responsibilities: when the clock starts (awareness by any worker), after-hours, immediate actions
• The categories that cause errors, and where an unauthorised restrictive practice fits in

Practical activity: Beat the clock: 12 time-stamped scenario cards across SIL, community, children and psychosocial settings.

Toolkit: Tool 1: Notification Decision Tree and Clock Card

• Measure awareness-to-notification time and find where the delay sits
• What the 5-day report requires, and what makes one weak
• System fixes that hold

Practical activity: Audit your own last 20 incidents in the spreadsheet and agree one fix in pairs. Red-pen a weak 5-day report.

Toolkit: Tool 2: Timeliness Audit | Tool 3: Five-Day Report Checklist

• August 2026 sub-type definitions, state authorisation and consent
• How registers drift, and what the monthly report must match
• Hidden practices in shared homes and how to spot them

Practical activity: Reconcile your register against plan, authorisation, consent, sub-type and monthly report. Spot the hidden practice in a described shared home.

Toolkit: Tool 4: Restrictive Practice Register and Authorisation Audit

• What counts as unauthorised use, and the first 72 hours
• Reporting unauthorised use: the 24-hour and 5-day reports
• Reduction strategies from the Commission's practice guide

Practical activity: The Friday night incident: a role-based case with facts injected over time (family complaint, injury, lapsed authorisation).

Toolkit: Tool 5: Unauthorised Use Response Protocol

• Your top three gaps go onto the 90-day plan. Choose your Day Two investigation scenario.