In a dossier compiled by the organisation’s legal team, which has represented children who have suffered broken bones, bruises and knocked out teeth, it was recorded that there were 142 injuries inflicted on boys as a result of restraint between April 2008 and March 2009.
Twisted: The Use of Force on Children in Custody said staff in privately run centres are unlawfully using a "touch and hold" policy to make children aged 12 to 15 comply with instructions. The practice is outside the authorised restraint method Physical Control in Care (PCC). Evidence given to Howard League lawyers indicates that the use of this informal physical intervention on children appears to provoke the unnecessary use of PCC.
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