Naomi* is the adoptive mother of a teenage boy with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder who was sent to his school’s isolation room multiple times a week for almost five years. Seclusion rooms are spaces where pupils are removed from class and isolated from their classmates.
Intended to keep children safe and minimise disruption, an investigation by The i Paper, based on the testimonies of 100 families, has revealed that some of the rooms are being overused on vulnerable children – including those with special educational needs – with parents reporting nightmares, self-harm and, in the most severe cases, threats of suicide.
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Here, Naomi describes how years of seclusion pushed her son, and her family, to breaking point.
My husband and I adopted our son and his older brother when they were 14 months and two years old. We’d been trying for a family for years, and had gone through several rounds of IVF.
