SIRS datasets for Specialist Dementia Care Units operated under the Commonwealth's Specialist Dementia Care Program (SDCP) covering the period January 1, 2025 to December 30, 2025

Written by Claude Haiku 5.5 from the extracted text on 21 Oct 2026. It can miss or misread redacted and scanned pages. Check the source before relying on it.

The release is a set of data tables of Serious Incident Response Scheme (SIRS) statistics for Specialist Dementia Care Units under the Specialist Dementia Care Program, covering January to December 2025, with figures broken into quarterly periods and October and November-December. Over the period, 1,288 SIRs were received in total, with unreasonable use of force the most common category (1,392 across the periods shown, though the category totals sum to the figures given in the table). Other categories include neglect, unlawful sexual contact or inappropriate sexual conduct, and unexpected death. Complaints totalled 109 across the periods, with complaint rates between 1.00 and 1.59. The tables also give the rate of SIRs per period. The release contains no assessment reports, compliance notices or delegations, and no exemptions under sections 47F, 47G or 47C are shown on the face of the extracted text. No individual providers or services are named.