seclusion

Responding to the videos, No 10 said the education department was looking at strengthening the guidance on the use of seclusion in specialist schools and would set out more information "as soon as possible".

The BBC has also uncovered other failings affecting children with special educational needs placed in seclusion across the UK, with an autistic child being kept in a cage at one school about 10 years ago.

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.