Earlier this year, a report from Positive & Active Behaviour Support Scotland and the Challenging Behaviour Foundation showed that, of the 566 families of children with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour surveyed, 88% said their child had experienced restraint and 58% said their children had suffered injuries as a result.
The report examined all restrictive interventions with disabled children, including mechanical restraint (such as being strapped into a chair), chemical restraint (medication) and seclusion (being isolated in a room that the child is prevented from leaving), concluding that all were overused. Some 60% of those surveyed believed that restrictive interventions were used by schools as their main method of tackling challenging behaviour, rather than as a last resort to prevent injury.
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