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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.

It aims to ensure that restraint and seclusion of children and young people in schools is only used as a last resort where there is an immediate risk of harm and using appropriate methods.

Ms Morrison thanked Daniel Johnson for his work on the Members' Bill and said that in the last school year they had heard from 208 "desperate families" who said their child had been physically and emotionally harmed because they had been subjected to the use of restraint and/or seclusion in Scottish schools.

Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, said pupils, parents and teachers were "deeply frustrated" at Scotland’s current approach to the use of restraint and seclusion.