The joint House of Commons and House of Lords human rights committee says the practices cause physical distress and psychological harm that can have a lasting impact on young people's lives.
The use of restraint to maintain "discipline and good order" in youth offender institutions (YOIs) should be outlawed, according to the committee's report Youth detention: solitary confinement and restraint, which says the method should only be used in the most exceptional circumstances.
These techniques are also in breach of children's human rights, it claims.
The committee is particularly concerned about distress caused by the "potentially dangerous" use of face-down restraint.
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