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ENABLE Scotland Campaign, In Safe Hands?

  • Submitted by: Jackie Baillie, Dumbarton, Scottish Labour.
  • Date lodged: Monday, 04 November 2019
  • Motion reference: S5M-19700
  • Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Tuesday, 25 February 2020

That the Parliament welcomes the ENABLE Scotland campaign, In Safe Hands?, which seeks to end the inappropriate use of seclusion and restraint in schools against children and young people who have a learning disability and promote the rights of some of the country's most vulnerable pupils; recognises that the December 2018 report by the Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland, No Safe Place, identified 2,674 incidents of restraint and seclusion relating to 386 children in the school year 2017-18; notes the calls for the implementation in Dumbarton and across Scotland of the campaign's call for the Scottish Government to issue strong, dedicated guidance on the use of restraint and seclusion in schools, to roll out Positive Support in all schools with a minimum standard that each has at least two trained staff on site at all times, to introduce a duty of candour around restraint and seclusion for all schools and to strengthen transparency and accountability with powers of oversight resting with the appropriate body, and commends all the children, young people and families who have bravely shared their experiences of restraint and seclusion in the hope of change.


Supported by: Jeremy Balfour, Sarah Boyack, Angela Constance, Mary Fee, Neil Findlay, Iain Gray, Daniel Johnson, Alison Johnstone, Monica Lennon, Alex Rowley, Colin Smyth, Andy Wightman