New Youth Justice Statistics for 2019/20, published by the Youth Justice Board (YJB) and Ministry of Justice (MoJ), show that the number of incidents of restrictive physical interventions increased by 19 per cent in the last year, to around 7,500 incidents.
More than 5,000 incidents included the use of pain inflicting techniques, records show.
Of those subject to restraint, 29 per cent of children were officially recorded as disabled compared with 24 per cent in 2018/19.
Some 45 incidents saw a child require medical treatment following the use of restraint with two children being taken to hospital from Feltham and Wetherby juvenile young offender institutions respectively.
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