Pain-inducing restraint in child custody must be exception - MoJ review

Review for England and Wales recommends tactic only be used to save life or prevent serious harm

Pain-inducing restraint techniques should only be used on children in custody as an “absolute exception” to save life or prevent serious harm, a long-awaited review has concluded, though it has stopped short of calling for an outright ban.

The review, led by the former chair of the Youth Justice Board Charlie Taylor, examined the inclusion of painful techniques in the minimising and managing painful restraint (MMPR) syllabus, the key training programme for officers in youth custody in England and Wales.

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