Alberta school isolation room rules due 'within weeks'
Alberta schools can expect to see new binding guidelines on the use of isolation rooms in a matter of weeks.
The change comes on the heels of publicity around a lawsuit filed in the Court of Queen’s Bench by a Sherwood Park family. They allege their 12-year-old son with autism was locked, naked, in a Clover Bar School isolation room, and are suing the teacher, the principal, the school board and the Alberta government.
Isolation room guidelines already exist in Alberta, but Education
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