One in 12 secondary pupils put in isolation rooms at least once a week, study finds

Children with special educational needs more than twice as likely to be put in isolation, say Manchester researchers

• ‘Publicly humiliated’: parents describe difficulty of children’s isolation at school

One in 12 secondary pupils report being put into school isolation rooms at least once a week where they often spend in excess of eight hours, missing more than a full day of lessons, according to research.

Children with special educational needs were more than twice as likely to be placed in isolation, otherwise known as internal exclusion, while students from low-income backgrounds were also disproportionately affected.