However, policy in other settings – children’s homes, residential schools, immigration removal centres and NHS hospitals – is more ambiguous.
Answering a question posed by Green MP Caroline Lucas, youth justice minister Crispin Blunt said secure children’s homes have been "strongly recommended" not to use the techniques.
He added that guidance has been issued to schools pointing out that the techniques present an "unacceptable risk" to children.
Blunt also pointed to the fact that regulations governing children’s homes and residential schools state that no measure of control, discipline or restraint that is excessive or unreasonable may be used.
"Any use of the restraint techniques which have been banned in secure training centres are likely to be in breach of regulation," he said.
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