Coroners, courts, regulators and inspectors have recorded what restraint does to the people it is used on. This casebook publishes those records as short, sourced case pages: what happened, what went wrong, and what it means for the people running the service.
Every entry states its confidence, what could not be verified, and where the source runs out. Where a case is still live, we hold it. Where a name cannot be justified, we do not print it. Publications are labelled as publications, because a national count is not an incident.
22 case entries and 8 publications.
A well-run school, three batteries and fourteen unlawful imprisonments
A former pupil was restrained face down three times and shut in his room with a towel across the doorway. The court found the school outstanding in other…
Shoved into a padded room and left there for hours
CCTV from a London special school showed autistic children restrained by the neck and shut in windowless padded rooms.
A school wrote its own policy to authorise a spit hood
An autistic boy with cerebral palsy was spit-hooded, restrained and placed alone in a cupboard-sized room. His claim settled without an admission of liability.