Latest statistics show that restraint use in secure children’s homes (SCHs), secure training centres (STCs) and young offender institutions (YOIs) went up from 6,922 incidents in 2009/10 to 7,191 incidents in 2010/11 (a 3.9 per cent increase).
The rise comes despite the average number of young people in custody dropping by 17 per cent from 2,670 in 2009/10 to 2,222 in 2010/11.
Details of the increase feature in one of more than a dozen spreadsheet documents supplied alongside annual youth justice statistics, published by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) yesterday.
The Youth Justice Statistics 2011 document itself does not mention the increase, stating instead that "there were 7,191 incidents of restraint used in the youth secure estate in 2010/11, down nine per cent from 2008/09".
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