Press and TV
The Independent, Friday 29th June 2018
Paul Dix talking about Isolation Booths on BBC news 12th November 2018
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-46044394
#BantheBooths from The Times Educational Supplement 27th November 2018
There is good practice in many removal rooms. Caring adults calmly working with angry and frustrated children who have struggled to follow directions. There is mentoring, coaching and challenge so that children can be returned to learning as soon as possible. Then there are removal rooms and isolation rooms where children sit in punishment booths, abandoned. Their education on hold. ………………https://banthebooths.co.uk/blog/whybanthebooths/
Parent and Child on Radio 4’s You and Yours talking about SEND and Isolation 10th December 2018
from 20.35 onwards
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0001hjp
‘Ungoverned’ use of restraint and seclusion in Scottish schools criticised 14th December 2018
Letters to The Guardian 17th December 2018
Parklands Primary School, Leeds. From padded cells to love and smiles, Chris Dyson, 26th December 2018
Legal action prompts academy to consider isolation unit criticisms The Guardian 30th January 2019
Academy to review use its use of Isolation Booths following legal action 1st February 2019 Matrix Chambers
Richard Burgon MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Justice talking about the campaign 14th March 2019
“Teen’s suicide bid in school isolation sparks legal threat” 4th April 2019 BBC News
“I was put in an isolation booth 240 times” 15th April 2019 BBC News
Government asks for extension over School use of Isolation Booths 15th April 2019 Simpson Millar
Isolation Booths are Bonkers by Dave Whittaker, Executive Headteacher Springwell Trust https://www.tes.com/news/isolation-booths-are-bonkers
Isolation Booths ‘intolderable’ says Childrens’ Tzar. Call for Ofsted to tell schools putting pupils in isolation booths ‘it’s not what they are looking for in a good school’ https://www.tes.com/news/isolation-booths-intolerable-says-childrens-tsar
Next step Judicial Review ?
Excellent article from Vice.com that Paul was interviewed for https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/7xg4v9/school-isolation-is-hurting-a-generation-of-young-people
Interesting updated legal advice for schools that encourages limiting use of isolation. https://www.vwv.co.uk/news-and-events/blog/academies-law-brief/isolation-seclusion-consequence
Parents respond to news of Isolation Booths in the Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/jan/19/flawed-thinking-behind-school-isolation-booths
Schools converting toilet blocks into Isolation Booths in the Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/jan/17/schools-converting-toilet-blocks-into-isolation-booths
Booths hit the Daily Mail https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7901337/Schools-putting-disruptive-pupils-TOILET-CUBICLES-converted-isolation-booths.html
Isolation Booths ‘deskilling’ teachers in the TES https://www.tes.com/news/watch-isolation-booths-de-skilling-teachers
Pupil isolation can harm mental health in the TES https://www.tes.com/news/pupil-isolation-can-harm-mental-health
Isolation Booths divide opinion between teachers https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/jan/17/behaviour-battleground-isolation-booths-divide-opinion-among-teachers
We need to end the outrage over isolation in schools in Forbes Magazine https://www.forbes.com/sites/nickmorrison/2020/01/22/we-need-to-end-the-outrage-over-isolation-in-schools/#4c9cf6519186
Call for clearer guidance on Isolation in schools. https://www.tes.com/news/call-clearer-dfe-guidance-isolation-schools
Disruptive children need the opposite of Isolation in school https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/jan/20/disruptive-children-need-the-opposite-of-isolation-in-school
Schools are needlessly placing pupils in isolation booths amid cuts to teaching assistants warns union leader https://inews.co.uk/news/schools-are-needlessly-placing-pupils-in-isolation-booths-amid-cuts-to-teaching-assistants-warns-union-leader-1369239
MP Alex Sobel calls for a ban on ‘cruel and demeaning’ isolation booths https://schoolsweek.co.uk/mp-wants-ban-on-cruel-and-demeaning-isolation-booths/
When School is an Isolation Booth with three toilet breaks a day https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/jan/14/school-isolation-cubicle-three-toilet-breaks-a-day
