Practices such seclusion and restraint in mental health centres have fallen to the lowest level since national reporting began. A report from watchdog, the Mental Health Commission, looked at the use ...

The stories are heartbreaking and frightening. Young students being locked in a room, alone, sometimes for hours. A child with Down syndrome coming home with bruises after being restrained at school.

The Wake County Public School System will host meetings with stakeholders and continue training school staff to de-escalate conflicts — all in an effort to reduce incidents of physically restraining ...

Louisiana schools would have to install cameras in special-education classrooms and stop putting students who have outbursts in separate “seclusion” rooms under a proposed law that advocates say ...