Email to Paul Givan MLA re: Progress in Drafting of the Statutory Guidance on Restrictive Practices

As background, I refer you to NICCY’s ‘Neither Seen Nor Heard: Rights Based Review on the Use of Restraint and Seclusion in Educational Settings’ (Neither Seen Nor Heard), published in 2021, in which we made 15 recommendations relating to policy, legislation, training, communication, reporting and monitoring of restrictive practices.1 A key recommendation was that the Department should issue statutory guidance, in the 2022/23 academic year, on the use of restrictive and support practices for educational settings under Article 18 1(c) of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 2003.

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