Hi all,
I just came out of a meeting with school about my son's school refusal and putting in a positive handling plan (PHP). I thought this would be in order to prevent physical handling from being used to get him into school as it has been done in the past. However, it seems school wants to go back to dragging him into school. He is 6 years old and we are in the process of assessing for ASD.
Does anyone have any experience of school refusal and physical restraint?
Do I have the right to withdraw consent given he is not hurting anyone, or himself, or property and is just refusing to physically walk into school or physically let me go once we are in there?
I feel like they are using physical restraint inappropriately in this case. Beginning of last term he was dragged in nearly daily for three weeks before I told them not to do it anymore. He was having nightmares, meltdowns, high anxiety and refusing to sleep/waking constantly and it was getting progressively worse. They then implemented a handful of badly implemented strategies for the school refusal and have circled back to this.
Any experiences or thoughts really welcome. Feeling quite alone.
