Question follow-through · 45153
Education: Restraint Techniques
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will introduce a statutory definition of restraint in the context of education.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 8 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 23 Apr 2025 · 15 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will introduce a statutory definition of restraint in the context of education.
23 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Apr 2025
Answer published
The government recognises that the misuse of reasonable force and restrictive interventions can have a significant and long-lasting effect on pupils, staff members and parents.The department is currently consulting on revisions to the ‘Use of reasonable ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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