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Secure Training Centres: Physical Restraint

Answer

The information referred to, which has been supplied by the Youth Justice Board, is in the table below. I am placing a copy in the Library.

Staffing, non-accidental injuries and use of restraint in secure training centres, July - September 2006¹
	Medway	Rainsbrook	Oakhill	Hassockfeld
Minimum Staffing Levels (MSL) met?	Met	Met	Not fully met²	met
Occasions of injuryarising from selfharm³	47	18	96	31
Other non-accidental injuries	0	0	0	0
Occasions on which restraint was used	282	144	199	109
¹ The data have been supplied by the secure training centres and verified by the YJB monitoring team. The centres have been asked to report ““all occasions of injury from self harm, no matter how minor””.
² Oakhill met its MSL requirement for custody officers throughout the quarter, apart from a period from the evening of 22 September to the afternoon of 24 September when up to three custody officers were absent. On 11 July, one of the MSL of five health care staff required between 07.30 and 08.30 was not met. The centre was unable to meet the MSL for provision of a social worker as part of its assessment team from 28 July until 11 September.
³ The majority of injuries required no treatment, the most common being superficial scratches.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

637; 688 c47-8WA

Session

2006-07

Related items

Deposited Paper DEP 06/2244
Tuesday, 12 December 2006
Deposited papers
House of Lords
House of Commons

Subjects

Injuries Staff Young offenders Restraint techniques Secure training centres Self-harm

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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