The Youth Justice Board (YJB) had previously told all secure estate providers they were required to have a restraint minimisation strategy in place by 15 March.
The deadline features in a YJB document titled Developing a Restraint Minimisation Strategy, published last year, stating that strategies should be developed between December 2009 and March 2010.
A spokeswoman for the YJB, however, said it had never been the case that strategies had to be completed by the 15 March date.
She said the deadline was a date by which establishments should have a strategy in place or for them to notify the YJB when such a strategy would be in place. "We are satisfied they have complied with what they were asked to do," she said.
YJB chief executive John Drew said: "All secure establishments have confirmed that they have in place, or are developing, a restraint minimisation strategy."
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