Young Offenders: Restraint Techniques Mr. Garnier To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many incidents involving the use of restraint by staff occurred in each young offender institution and secure training centre in England and Wales in each of the last 10 years. Mr. Hanson Restraint is only ever to be used by staff as a last resort, when all other approaches have either not succeeded or would not be appropriate. The independent Review of Restraint in Juvenile Secure Settings, which was published together with the Government's response on 15 December 2008, made important recommendations about improving practice and making sure restraint is used as sparingly as possible. The Government and the Youth Justice Board are working together to implement those recommendations. The following table sets out the number of recorded restrictive physical interventions (RPIs) on young people under the age of 18 in secure training centres and young offender institutions from 1 April 2007 to 31 December 2008. The Youth Justice Board has been collecting data against common definitions from April 2007. Comparable data are not available for earlier periods. It is not possible to provide information on the number of recorded RPIs for 18 to 21-year-olds in young offender institutions as this is not held centrally in the format requested and could be provided only at disproportionate cost. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Operational capacity at 9 January 2009|April 2007 to March 2008|April 2008 to December 2008| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Secure training centres | | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Hassockfield |64 |519 |377 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Medway |76 |869 |289 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Oakhill |80 |1,012 |260 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Rainsbrook |87 |373 |288 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Young offender institutions | | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Ashfield |400 |431 |446 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Brinsford |112 |161 |82 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Castington |168 |187 |172 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Cookham Wood |110 |17 |16 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Downview |16 |29 |37 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Eastwood Park |16 |28 |19 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Feltham |240 |379 |337 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Foston Hall |16 |54 |30 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Hindley |192 |337 |284 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Huntercombe |360 |404 |369 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Lancaster Farms |240 |299 |208 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |New Hall |26 |60 |84 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Parc |64 |65 |97 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Stoke Heath |202 |145 |118 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Thorn Cross1 |n/a |0 |n/a | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Warren Hill |222 |212 |249 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Werrington |160 |297 |295 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Wetherby |402 |377 |268 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |1 The YJB stopped placing under 18s at HM YOI Thorn Cross from 1 April 2008Source:Data have been taken from YJB administrative computer systems| | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Among the recommendations referred to above, the review proposed an examination of the basis for the relatively low level of use of force per young person reported in YOIs.