OIAs (Official Information Act)
Schools used emotive terms to describe these room e.g. ‘concrete bunker’, ‘the cage’, and ‘quick and dirty’.
Review of Current Practice – by Terri Johnstone
16 June 2016 Education Report Physical Restraint and Seclusion
Education Report Physical Restraint and Seclusion
12 Ocotober 2016 Education Report – Release of the Physical Restraint and Seclusion Guides
Release of the Physical Restraint and Seclusion Guide
Survey of the use of seclusion in New Zealand schools.
Following the Advisory Group’s clarification on the definition of seclusion and in order to work with schools to cease the practice of seclusion, the Ministry of Education undertook a survey of all 2529 state, state integrated, partnership schools and private schools in New Zealand. On the basis of the guidance definition, the purpose of the survey was to identify what schools were using seclusion practice (as opposed to time out) and to work with those schools to eliminate its use.
Minimising physical restraint and stopping seclusion in New Zealand Schools
The respondents were asked directly whether or not they operated a room for the purposes of seclusion, and all provided a definitive ‘yes’/’no’ reply.
Survey questions to the Ministry of Education
