CENSORED: Ministry of Justice: Minimising and Managing Physical Restraint (2014/15)
A ground-breaking review of child abuse was published last month. It describes children being coerced, controlled, humiliated, intimidated, degraded and bullied. Children who complained of mistreatment were not believed because there was no CCTV evidence to back them up. Self-harming children were watched even when taking a shower or visiting the toilet. Punishments included banning children from eating in the dining room. This was the report of the Medway Improvement Board, established by justice minister Michael Gove in the wake of BBC Panorama’s programme, ‘Teenage Prison Abuse Exposed’, about the G4S-run prison for 12 to 17 year-olds.
