The progress report of the review panel, set up four years ago following the deaths in custody of two young offenders, states that "in some circumstances, pain compliance was necessary".
Carolyne Willow, national co-ordinator for the Children’s Rights Alliance for England, said the review team should be ashamed of themselves for continuing "to defend the use of pain-compliance restraints".
Willow added that pain compliance techniques, which include thumb and rib distraction, have been strongly criticised by among others the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and the Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights.
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