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Jesus H. Christ, I immediately thought oh it's not going to be as bad as it sounds, the. The video does genuinely show it being as bad and worse than it sounds.
I'm autistic, when I get particularly distressed, I'll end up impulsively hitting my head against walls or with my fist. Generally that behaviour is worse when left alone after getting into that state to begin with. By leaving these kids to actively self harm by isolating them, likely has worsened their situations, and probably has caused the epilepsy in the one child to become apparent.
My partner is a teaching assistant at a mainstream school which takes on a huge number of SEN children, mostly autistic, about 5 with down syndrome, and recently a lot who were fostered. They would never in a million years think that anything like what's shown in the video is acceptable, it's genuinely heartbreaking that this has occured, let alone that noone is being held accountable for this abuse.
There's got to be so many better ways of helping these kids when they're distressed instead of just throwing them into what is effectively a padded cell.