Staff at Medway Secure Training Centre (STC) must immediately stop using "force and restraint" to deal with "children's passive non-compliance", according to a joint report published this week by the Care Quality Commission, HM Inspectorate of Prisons, and Ofsted.
The report raises concerns that staff "continue to deliberately use techniques that inflict pain on children in order to gain compliance".
Children's rights charity Article 39 described the ongoing use as "unbelievable and incredibly upsetting" and called for Medway to be closed down.
Despite the inspectorate's findings in relation to restraint, standards at Medway are better in a number of respects, and the report found the STC "requires improvement to be good".
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