Isolation Rooms

Date Request Recieved: 03/09/2018  -  Date Response Sent: 13/09/2018

Details of Request

1. Does the trust operate a policy of using ‘isolation rooms’ or ‘isolation spaces’ as a behaviour management policy? (in which a pupil is removed from a lesson and put in a room)
2. How many schools within the trust use isolation rooms? (Answer xx out of total schools).
3. Are pupils always and without exception provided with the identical work they would be doing in the lesson they are missing while in the isolation room? If not, what are they supplied with?
4. Is a member of staff always and without exception present in the isolation room while the pupil is in there?
5. What is the maximum time a can pupil kept in there? Please indicate: one lesson, half a day, full day, up to a week, longer.
6. What is the rationale for the trust using isolation rooms/not using/banning the use of isolation rooms? Are other disciplinary methods less effective?

Details of Response