22 NI families claim their special needs children were restrained and injured in school
Education Committee deputy chairman, Pat Sheehan, said campaigners report was harrowing and had echoes of Muckamore Abbey claims
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Deirdre Shakespeare with son Harry and husband Rodney (Image: Shakespeare family)
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Celebrity businesswoman Paris Hilton has made an open appeal to the NI Assembly to introduce tougher laws on when a child can be physically restrained at school, saying there needed to be meaningful protections for children .
Ms Hilton spoke out in support of Harry’s Law, a campaign led by Tyrone mother Deirdre Shakespeare after she realised how much her son Harry was being restrained at his special school after seeing a photo diary of his first year.
While permission was granted by Harry s parents for him to be put in a chair at mealtimes, the extent of the use of restraints is now the subject of a legal dispute.
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