174 (1) No service provider or foster parent shall place in a locked room a child or young person who is in the service provider’s or foster parent’s care or permit the child or young person to be placed in a locked room, except in accordance with this section and the regulations. Secure treatment, secure custody and secure temporary detention (2) Subsection (1) does not prohibit the routine locking at night of rooms in the premises of secure treatment programs or in places of secure custody and places of secure temporary detention under Part VI (Youth Justice). Criteria for use of a secure de-escalation room (3) A child or young person may be placed in a secure de-escalation room where, (a) in the service provider’s opinion, (i) the child’s or young person’s conduct indicates that the child or young person is likely, in the immediate future, to cause serious property damage or to cause another person serious bodily harm, and (ii) no less restrictive method of restraining the child or young person is practicable; and (b) where the child is younger than 12, a Director gives permission for the child to be placed in a secure de-escalation room because of exceptional circumstances. One-hour limit (4) A child or young person who is placed in a secure de-escalation room shall be released within one hour unless the person in charge of the premises approves the child’s or young person’s longer stay in a secure de-escalation room in writing and records the reasons for not restraining the child or young person by a less restrictive method. Continuous observation (5) Subject to subsection (9), the service provider shall ensure that a child or young person who is placed in a secure de-escalation room is continuously observed by a responsible person. Review (6) Where a child or young person is kept in a secure de-escalation room for more than one hour, the person in charge of the premises shall review the child’s or young person’s placement in a secure de-escalation room at prescribed intervals. Release (7) A child or young person who is placed in a secure de-escalation room shall be released as soon as the person in charge is satisfied that the child or young person is not likely to cause serious property damage or serious bodily harm in the immediate future. Maximum periods (8) Subject to subsection (9), in no event shall a child or young person be kept in a secure de-escalation room for a period or periods that exceed an aggregate of eight hours in a given 24-hour period or an aggregate of 24 hours in a given week. Exception (9) A service provider is not required to comply with subsections (5) and (8) with respect to a young person who is 16 or older and who is held in a place of secure custody or of secure temporary detention, but a service provider shall comply with the following standards and procedures and with any additional standards and procedures that may be prescribed: 1. The young person must be observed every 15 minutes by a responsible person and these observations must be recorded in the young person’s case record. 2. The service provider must determine whether, given the needs of the young person, the young person should be observed at regular intervals that are more frequent than every 15 minutes, and, if that determination is made, the young person must be observed by a responsible person at the more frequent intervals determined by the service provider and these observations must be recorded in the young person’s case record. 3. The young person must not be kept in a secure de-escalation room for a continuous period in excess of 24 hours or for a period or periods that exceed an aggregate of 24 hours in a seven-day period. 4. Despite paragraph 3, the service provider may extend a young person’s placement in a secure de-escalation room for a continuous period beyond 24 hours or for an aggregate of more than 24 hours in a given seven-day period, if the provincial director approves the extension. 5. The provincial director may approve the extension of the placement of a young person in a secure de-escalation room beyond 24 continuous hours or beyond an aggregate of 24 hours in a given seven-day period if the provincial director has reasonable and probable grounds to believe that the young person’s continued placement in a secure de-escalation room is necessary for the safety of staff or young persons in the facility.