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Young Offender Institutions: Restraint Techniques

Mrs. Moon: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice which young offender institutions have been found by inspectors to be using health care beds for behaviour management purposes in the last five years; and if he will make a statement. [203585]

Mr. Hanson: To provide information for the last five years would be at disproportionate cost. However, in reports published since January 2007, Her Majesties Inspectorate of Prisons has identified five young offenders institutions which have been using health care beds for behaviour management purposes—HMP and YOI Brinsford, HMYOI Hindley, HMYOI Lancaster Farms, HMP and YOI Lewes and HMP and YOI Parc.

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Action plans produced in response to the recommendations made in the Brinsford and Hindley reports have confirmed that young people at these prisons are no longer placed in the health care unit for behaviour management reasons. A health care needs analysis is being undertaken at Lancaster Farms and will consider this issue. Action plans have yet to be produced in respect of the Lewes and Parc reports.

Jenny Willott: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many injuries were sustained by offenders held in (a) secure training centres, (b) secure children’s
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homes and (c) young offender institutions in each year since 2000, broken down by establishment; and if he will make a statement. [204313]

Mr. Hanson: The Youth Justice Board has been collecting data against common definitions from April 2007. Comparable data across the children and young people’s custodial estate is not available for earlier periods.

The following table shows the number of injuries sustained by trainees as a result of assault, restraint or self harm.

	2007									2008
	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December	January	February
Secure training centres
Hassockfield	3	14	1	1	9	5	5	5	0	1	2
Rainsbrook	0	1	1	1	2	1	0	6	2	0	1
Oakhill	13	26	16	11	36	21	25	8	8	3	3
Medway	20	14	11	20	10	7	4	14	6	8	4
Young offender institutions
Ashfield	3	8	15	13	16	9	15	7	10	3	1
Parc	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	1
Brinsford	9	9	1	3	3	1	2	4	3	4	1
Castington	1	1	0	3	2	1	2	0	3	1	2
Feltham	17	17	17	21	4	8	1	12	0	4	15
Hindley	4	2	3	3	1	5	0	2	2	6	3
Huntercombe	0	8	10	3	3	0	11	17	0	2	5
Lancaster Farms	5	15	10	21	7	1	3	4	2	1	4
Stoke Heath	0	1	2	7	4	2	3	1	4	3	1
Thorn Cross	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Warren Hill	11	10	2	2	1	3	2	1	5	3	1
Werrington	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	2
Wetherby	1	2	1	1	0	3	2	1	0	4	9
CookhamWood(1)	0	0	0	0	n/a	n/a	1	0	n/a	n/a	n/a
Downview	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	—	0
Eastwood Park	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Foston Hall	0	0	15	5	13	19	8	1	4	6	5
New Hall	1	0	5	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	0
Secure children’s homes
Aldine House	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Atkinson Unit	0	0	4	2	1	0	0	2	1	0	1
Aycliffe	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Barton Moss	0	0	1	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0
Clayfields	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
East Moor	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	1
Gladstone House	0	0	0	1	0	2	1	0	0	0	0
Hillside	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	0	0	0
Kyloe House	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Lincolnshire	4	1	2	0	2	1	2	0	0	2	0
Orchard Lodge	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	1
Red Bank	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2
Sutton Place	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Swanwick Lodge	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Vinney Green	2	2	2	3	2	2	6	15	1	0	2
(1) Cookham Wood was unoccupied for part of the period. Note: Data provided by the YJB. These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems, which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing and can be subject to change over time.

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