Annual statistics published by the Youth Justice Board (YJB) and the Ministry of Justice for the period April 2018 to March 2019 show restrictive physical interventions (RPI) increased by 16 per cent, to around 6,300 incidents, while self-harm incidents increased by three per cent, to around 1,800.
For both types of incident, this is the highest level of occurrence in England and Wales in the last five years, the report states.
Campaigners have called the figures a "child protection scandal" and their release comes just weeks before the expected publication of a review into the use of pain inducing restraint in the secure estate led by outgoing chair of the YJB Charlie Taylor.
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