Can you imagine - a concise code of practice. Isn't that a contradictionin terms?
Read it and believe. Covering behaviour management in three and a bitpages is pretty impressive, but is it good enough? After all, we'retalking about some of the most troubled and needy children in thecountry locked up away from everything they know and placed in aninstitutional hothouse.
Bullying is endemic, rates of self-harm are high, and deaths in custodystill tragically common.
Prison is a dangerous place. The Youth Justice Board has been looking atthe use of control and restraint methods for a considerable period oftime. In April 2004, 15-year-old Gareth Myatt died while beingrestrained by staff in Rainsbrook Secure Training Centre, and I'm surethat this gave the board a new sense of urgency. Anne Owers, the chiefinspector of prisons, recently complained about the way in whichphysical force and heavy-handed restraint techniques are used againstchildren in prison.
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