Their calls for revised guidelines to give teachers greater clarity about how to approach pupil behaviour and when to physically intervene follow years of Government delay to a promised overhaul.
It finds that nearly two-thirds (65 per cent) of teachers have either not read current Department for Education (DfE) guidance on the use of restraint and the use of reasonable force (39 per cent), or think it is unclear (26 per cent).
More than five years of delay
The i Paper has learnt that efforts to replace the guidance began more than five years ago but have yet to bear fruit. Campaigners are also alarmed after being told by the DfE that when new guidance is eventually produced it will be informed by research that suggests that restraint in schools is “rare”.
Concerns are growing about the extent of such physical interventions in schools and the traumatic impact it can have on pupils who often have special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).
England’s Children’s Commissioner Dame Rachel de Souza has described the cases as “appalling” and is calling for less restraint in schools and better guidance.
“I have been clear that restraint should be used infrequently,” she told The i Paper.
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