Department of Health, 2014a). The consultation has now closed and comments are being considered. Decisions to detain a person under the Act are a matter for clinical judgement, and it is agreed that there is no right or wrong overall number. What matters is that each individual decision should be correct at the time that it is taken. Positive and Proactive Care; reducing the use of restrictive interventions’ was published by the Department of Health in April 2014. It includes a requirement for Trust boards or equivalent to develop restraint reduction plans and to record the use of restraint.