Physical Restraint and Seclusion in Schools

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His work is quoted in a number of official reports and guidance documents. He is the author of 14 books, and lectured in schools, colleges and universities providing training across the UK, Europe, Canada, Jamaica, Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand. He has also worked as a technical advisor for media companies producing dramas and documentaries, including the use of undercover reporters to expose malpractice. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) imposes strict obligations on those who handle personal data. Teachers and support staff are integral to behaviour success through high quality teaching and learning that is carefully planned to meet the needs of each and every child. If behaviour results in physical or verbal abuse towards a teacher/adult an ‘Assault’ form should be completed and a copy forwarded to the LA. Expert Witness in cases involving education, health & safety, learning disability, behaviour management, risk management, safeguarding children & adults, balanced reduction in risk, restraint and restriction, guidance and training in personal safety and physical restraint.

Long answer short – this was the case in the past. Although there is now no need to keep a numbered, bound book (unless you wish to), that advice is still being passed around as a requirement. Schools have to ‘consider how best to record such serious incidents’. Measures of control and disciplinary measures are based on establishing positive relationships with children which are designed to help the child. Such measures are fair and consistently applied. They also encourage reparation and restitution and reduce the likelihood of negative behaviour becoming the focus of attention and subsequent disruption to the placement.

If physical intervention of any kind is required, then a record should be completed in the ‘Bound and Numbered’ Book as soon as possible and within 24 hours of the incident. Children are encouraged to develop a proper awareness of their rights and responsibilities. Staff and children alike are clear that each individual has rights and responsibilities in relation to those who live in the home, those who work there and people in the community. Where there has been physical intervention, the child will have the right to be examined by a registered nurse or medical practitioner within 24 hours. When things go wrong, children are an integral part of establishing a solution, so they are able to learn from the situation. He went on to work with Team Teach Ltd, writing and producing training manuals, course workbooks and videos of physical techniques.

Physical restraint is only used to prevent likely injury to the child concerned or to others, or likely serious damage to property. Restraint is not used as a punishment, as a means to enforce compliance with instructions, or in response to challenging behaviour which does not give rise to reasonable expectation of injury to someone or serious damage to property. (For schools which are children’s homes, this does not prevent the use of restraint in circumstances permitted by s550A of the Education Act 1996.) Any other incident deemed ‘serious’ or resulting in injury should be recorded on an Accident/Assault Incident form, the teacher’s class diary or the Playgrounds Incident Book. He is currently a non-executive director of Team-Teach Ltd, one of the largest providers of training in the prevention and management of risk, restraint and restriction in the UK and abroad, and a member of the board of the Institute of Conflict Management. Teachers need to recognise that effective conditions for learning (planning, pitch, pace, participation etc) will impact positively on general classroom behaviour. The consequences of unacceptable behaviour are clear to staff and children and any measures applied are relevant to the incident, reasonable and carried out as contemporaneously as possible.To ensure learning systems enable each and every child to understand how they can be successful as a member of the school community and as a learner. Unless the registered person can demonstrate that this is not appropriate, the home has procedures and guidance on police involvement in the home, which have been agreed with the local police and which staff are knowledgeable and clear about. Staff have a collective responsibility to support all our children and that as a team we are more likely to create solutions and strategies that are effective. When children get a specified number of smileys, they are given a certificate to take home related to their house team which recognises this milestone: