Schools: Discipline

(asked on 26th February 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools in (a) the North West (b) Merseyside and (c) the Wallasey constituency have placed disruptive children in isolation booths in the 2019-2020 academic year.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 2nd March 2020

?The Department does not collect or record information about schools’ use of isolation.

Guidance allows schools to adopt a policy for disruptive pupils to be placed in isolation away from other pupils for a limited period. If a school uses isolation as a disciplinary penalty, this should be made clear in their behaviour policy. As with other disciplinary penalties, schools must act lawfully, reasonably and proportionately in all cases. The school must also ensure the health and safety of all pupils.

The existing guidance is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/behaviour-and-discipline-in-schools.

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