The Commission continued to influence law, policy and practice through making submissions to relevant agencies and Parliamentary Select Committees highlighting the importance of human rights principles and encouraging human rights compliant actions, with good results. A successful application was made for funding from the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in order to carry out a review of seclusion and restraint practices in detention settings, including youth justice facilities, mental health units and prisons. This important piece of work follows on from an initial HRC overview of Mental Health in Detention: Duties of the State which was included in the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture Annual report released in December 2015. 28 Human Rights Commission