Lord Carlile's independent inquiry was triggered by the death of15-year-old Gareth Myatt in a secure training centre in 2004.
It is expected to include strong criticism of the use of physicalrestraint, solitary confinement and forcible strip-searching of childrenin custody.
It follows last week's publication of new Youth Justice Board guidanceon managing the behaviour of children in custody. It says that physicalrestraint must only be used as a last resort.
But Frances Crook, director of The Howard League for Penal Reform, saidit had "no teeth".
- www.yjb.gov.uk.
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