Figure 10: Service users secluded October 2019 – March 2020 by ethnicity Pacific Peoples (6%) 51% Mäori (51%) Other (43%) Interestingly, while Pacific Peoples accounted for 6% of service users who were secluded, they accounted for as many as 17% of all seclusion events, indicating a high number of repeated seclusions. Figure 11: Seclusion events October 2019 – March 2020 by service user’s ethnicity Pacific Peoples (17%) 51% Mäori (38%) Other (45%) There was significant variation in the use of seclusion across the four different regions. In one DHB, a total of 17 service users were secluded over a six months period, while in another DHB, 56 individual service users (including in inpatient disability facilities, rehabilitation units, adolescent inpatient service and youth secure forensic unit) were secluded 581 times, together spending 5,059 seclusion hours. As many as 48% of these service users were Mäori, and 12.5% were Pacific Peoples. 42