That a range of pain-compliant techniques are permissible runs counter to earlier government reassurances that these are not available for young people in these institutions, unlike the control and restraint techniques that can be used in Prison Service establishments for juveniles, is a matter of deep concern. The Children's Rights Alliance for England is right to express outrage at what has emerged, although the former children's commissioner's remark that it is time "the whole country knows what is going on under their noses" is rather ill-chosen, given that nose restraint was one of the controversial measures of control about which we were aware. It has already been condemned as routinely and unlawfully used in one STC.
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