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Your voice will make a difference

Check your child's school division website, or search online for their seclusion and restraint policy, if they have one. Look it over carefully and ask questions if you don't understand, or don't agree with, something. You are the right to have your voice heard and your child's best interests represented.

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Our division's seclusion and restraint policies

Seclusion & Restraint Policy

Students have a right to appropriate educational programming in a safe, caring, and inclusive learning environment as mandated by Manitoba Education (2021) Safe and Caring Schools: A Policy Directive Enhancing Proactive Supports to Minimize the Use of Seclusion. 


Schools have a responsibility to provide a safe, caring, and inclusive learning environment by implementing a positive whole-school approach for student safety and student belonging in the school environment. 


Schools have a responsibility to engage in preventative and positive practices as opposed to those that are punitive and reactive. Preventative and positive measures facilitate a positive school climate and build a culture of trust and respect. 


In order to ensure that schools maintain safe and caring school environments for all students and employees, The division recognizes that schools may need to use seclusion when a student is engaging in intense violent behaviour that presents a significant and immediate risk to the student or others. 


Seclusion is always the last resort. Prevention strategies, de-escalation interventions, and less restrictive measures must have been exhausted with the student before any form of seclusion implementation. 


Definitions and Terminology 


Behaviour 

The way in which a student acts in response to a particular situation or stimulus and may be a way to communicate need or a way to cope with stress/stressors. 


Calming Space 

A designated space that provides opportunities for students to experience a reduction in sensory input. It may include specific activities or tools to calm the nervous system. A calming space when used appropriately serves as a preventive measure. The use of a calming space would be included in a student- specific plan if being used on a regular basis. 


Seclusion 

The involuntary confinement of a student alone in a room or area where the student cannot freely exit. 


Seclusion should only be used in exceptional circumstances when a student is engaging in intense violent behaviour that presents a significant and immediate risk to the student or others and should only be considered as a last resort. 


Physical Restraint 

Personal restriction that immobilizes or reduces the ability of a student to move their torso, arms, legs, or head freely in order to secure and maintain the safety of the person or the safety of others. 


Time Out 

A strategy to reduce student behaviour by removing the student for a specified and limited period. Time-out does not necessarily require removal of a student to an isolated or secluded setting. 


Sensory Spaces 

A broad variety of therapeutic spaces (eg. an identified calming space, sensory modulation/integration room, multi-sensory room) to proactively meet a student’s sensory needs and promote self-regulation. The use of a sensory space would be set up and monitored in consultation with an occupational therapist and would be included in a student specific plan. 


Seclusion Procedures 

The division will only support the use of seclusion when schools have fully addressed the following requirements: 


  • A whole school plan for safety and belonging that ensures a team approach for helping students with challenging behaviour is in place.
     
  • All school staff receive ongoing training and professional learning in strengths-based positive interventions and supports.
     
  • Specific school staff receive on-going training and professional learning in conflict/crisis de-escalation strategies.
     
  • The school’s emergency response plan defines seclusion protocols. School-based seclusion procedures must ensure the following:
     
  • Students are treated with respect and dignity.
     
  • An adult continuously observes the student for the entire period of seclusion – occasional checks are not acceptable.
     
  • The parent/guardian is contacted as soon as reasonably possible. 


Reporting 


The principal and/or designated must report any event that involves the use of seclusion to the parents/legal guardians and the Superintendent/CEO on the day of the event.
 

Documentation 


Each event of the use of seclusion must be documented and reported to the Superintendent/CEO within 48 hours. 


Principals and/or designates are to complete the “Student Seclusion Event Report”. 

A copy of “Student Seclusion Event Report” is to be filed in the pupil file and entered into the school’s student information system.
 

Monitoring and Review 


The division will annually review seclusion data to understand the circumstances around the use of seclusion and to determine any further actions that need considered for safe, caring, and inclusive learning environments. 

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If you have moved your way up through the proper complaints process for your school division and are not satisfied, you can contact your local MLA and the Minister of Education.

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