{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-independent-school-standards-regulations-2014/schedule/paragraph-16A",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2014/3283",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Independent School Standards) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-independent-school-standards-regulations-2014",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/16A",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "16A",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The standard in this paragraph is met if the proprietor—\n(a) ensures that a procedure is in place for recording each use of force incident in accordance with section 93A of the Education and Inspections Act 2006;\n(b) ensures that a procedure is in place for recording each incident in which a member of the school staff secludes, restrains or immobilises a pupil for whom education is being provided at the school (a “seclusion or restraint incident”); and\n(c) takes all reasonable steps to ensure that both procedures are complied with.\n(2) The procedure under sub-paragraph (1)(b) must require that the record is made in writing as soon as practicable after the incident.\n(3) The procedure under sub-paragraph (1)(b) need not provide for any action to be taken in relation to a seclusion or restraint incident that also constitutes a use of force incident within the meaning of section 93A of the Education and Inspections Act 2006 and therefore falls to be recorded under the procedure referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(a).\n(4) For the purposes of this paragraph a member or members of school staff seclude a pupil if they detain that one pupil in a place apart from any other person (except the member or members of staff) otherwise than as a disciplinary penalty, including by—\n(a) physically obstructing the pupil’s way of leaving the place;\n(b) securing the place so that the pupil cannot leave it; or\n(c) causing the pupil to believe that they will be punished if they leave the place.\n(5) For the purposes of this paragraph a member of school staff restrains or immobilises a pupil if they restrict the pupil’s movement otherwise than as a disciplinary penalty, including by—\n(a) holding or binding the pupil’s body or part of it;\n(b) securing the pupil to a fixed or heavy object; or\n(c) depriving the pupil of an auxiliary aid that they usually use to help them move.\n(6) In this paragraph—\n“disciplinary penalty” has the same meaning as in Chapter 1 of Part 7 of the Education and Inspections Act 2006;\n“staff” includes supply staff and volunteers.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 16A inserted (1.4.2026) by The Schools (Recording and Reporting of Seclusion and Restraint) (No. 2) (England) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1348), regs. 1(2)(b), 7(2)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/3283/schedule/paragraph/16A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:53:52.174724+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}