Lady -Carers cannot physically restrain a child, no matter what their behaviours and centres cannot legally 'expell' a child from their care, as a child is not deemed to be of an age of understanding. It is also considered discriminatory towards that child and the families needs. In Australia, we must follow the guidelines given by the NCAC (national childcare accreditation council) - previously we used timeout for behavioural management, this meant the offending child was removed from the area to a boring, no toys area still with in supervision, we are no longer allowed to use this practice as accreditation deems it to no longer be best practice - due to it isolating and making the child feel an outcast (how it makes the child they have hurt feel seems irrelevant). While I agree with this to a degree, I believe some behaviours are definitely serious enough to use this practice - but we can't.
It makes it VERY VERY difficult for everyone involved to know just how to deal with these very hard behaviours.