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The Residential Holiday Schemes for Disabled Children (England) Regulations 2013

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Behaviour management and discipline
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14.—(1) No measure which is—

(a)excessive;

(b)unreasonable; or

(c)of a type listed in paragraph (2),

may be used for the control or discipline of children accommodated by the scheme.

(2) The measures are—

(a)corporal punishment;

(b)a punishment involving the consumption or deprivation of food or drink;

(c)a restriction, other than one imposed by a court, on—

(i)a child’s contact with parents, relatives or friends;

(ii)a visit to the child by the child’s parents, relatives or friends; or

(iii)a child’s access to a telephone helpline providing counselling for children;

(d)a requirement that a child wears distinctive or inappropriate clothes;

(e)the use or withholding of medication or medical or dental treatment;

(f)the intentional deprivation of sleep;

(g)the imposition of a financial penalty, other than a requirement for the payment of a reasonable sum (which may be by instalments) by way of reparation;

(h)an intimate physical examination of the child;

(i)the withholding of any aids or equipment needed by a disabled child;

(j)a measure which involves—

(i)a child in the imposition of a measure against another child; or

(ii)the punishment of a group of children for the behaviour of an individual child.

(3) Nothing in this regulation prohibits—

(a)the taking of action by, or in accordance with the instructions of—

(i)a registered medical practitioner; or

(ii)a registered dental practitioner,

which is necessary to protect the child’s health;

(b)the taking of any necessary action to prevent injury to any person or serious damage to property; or

(c)the imposition of a requirement that a child wears distinctive clothing for sporting purposes, or for purposes connected with the child’s education or with any organisation whose members customarily wear uniform in connection with its activities.

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