Consequences of breaching dignity of risk principles

In the community services context, not respecting a person’s right to take risks and learn by experience can be a serious infringement of their basic human rights. You need to balance the risk against the possible benefit and offer people opportunities to explore their choices, make decisions and take chances in order to learn and grow, as safely as possible. All adults have the legal right to make their own choices and decisions unless they have undergone a legal process by which they are deemed not competent or not having the capacity to make decisions. You should not limit a person’s opportunities to learn by trying with the aim to protect them from every possible risk.

Here are some possible consequences.