A report by the European Committee of Social Rights, which monitors compliance to the Council of Europe's social charter treaty, of which the UK is a signatory, highlights a number of areas where standards have been breached, including the issue of restraint.
Current government guidance on the use of restraint in young offender institutions, Minimising and Managing Physical Restraint, permits the use of restraint techniques that deliberately inflict pain on children.
These techniques are supposed to be a last resort, in order to protect the child or other people from “an immediate risk of serious physical harm”.
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