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Mentally Ill WA Kids Still Put in Solitude

Cathy O'Leary, The West Australian, 7 Feb 2018

Bed restraints on a bed.

WA children are still being put into seclusion and physically restrained in psychiatric wards. There were 178 instances of physical restraint on children under 18 years of age which lasted an average of 5 minutes with one child was placed into seclusion for 10 hours.

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