At a High Court hearing set to begin today (22 November), campaigners will claim that former detainees of secure training centres must be told if they were potentially subjected to unlawful restraint procedures, so they can seek compensation or other forms of redress.
Lawyers for the Children's Rights Alliance for England (Crae) will call for those who were restrained for the purposes of discipline or subjected to "distraction" techniques, such as blows to the nose, to be told the treatment was unlawful.
Crae’s national co-ordinater Carolyne Willow said: "It was not children's responsibility to know about, challenge and stop unlawful and abusive treatment.
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