Schools isolate pupils for months under strict discipline policies, BBC investigation finds

A Year 11 student died by suicide after experiencing strict school discipline; inquest testimony linked the school's punitive system to his mental health deterioration.

Across English secondary schools, a disciplinary practice known as internal exclusion — placing students alone in surveillance-monitored booths for hours or entire days — has grown quietly beyond the reach of regulation or scrutiny. A BBC investigation has brought into focus what happens when institutional order becomes an end in itself: young people, some already fragile, are removed from the community of learning and left to sit with their thoughts and little else. The death of a Devon teenager following strict school discipline has given the question its most human weight, asking whether sy

Schools isolate pupils for months under strict discipline policies, BBC investigation finds

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