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Grove also authored Senate Bill 1043, which would create a public database to disclose any uses of seclusion or behavioral constraints on minors held at residential therapeutic facilities.

The first move towards a law covering the restraint and seclusion of school children will be taken at the Scottish Parliament later.

California lawmakers on Wednesday passed bipartisan legislation to enact stricter public oversight on the use of seclusion or restraints on children and teenagers in residential treatment facilities, protections advocated by celebrity hotel heir Paris Hilton.

Secretive traditional rite-of-passage ceremonies see boys aged between 10 and 17 spending up to six months in seclusion in the bush.

Researchers who surveyed patients about restraint and seclusion have found that a large portion, 25 to 47 percent , met criteria for post-traumatic stress disorder.