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On how many occasions physical restraint occurred at the Atkinson Unit Local Authority

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Secure Children's Home in relation to, respectively, male and female black and ethnic minority clients during each of the 12 months prior to 1 November; and [HL889]

On how many occasions physical restraint occurred at Aldine House Secure Unit in relation to, respectively, male and female black and ethnic minority clients during each of the 12 months prior to 1 November.[HL890]

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Lord Adonis: Incidents of restraint in secure children's homes (SCHs) have been reported centrally to the Youth Justice Board (YJB) since February 2006. At present, information is not collected about the use of restraint by gender or by ethnicity; however, the YJB will also be collecting this additional data from February 2007. In this context, restraint refers to occasions when “force is used to overpower a young person”. The number of incidents of restraints reported to the YJB in Atkinson Unit, Aycliffe, Barton Moss and Aldine House SCHs are listed in the table.

2006	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October
Aldine House	1	5	11	1	3	14	13	4	1
Atkinson Unit	16	22	25	37	27	21	23	19	17
Aycliffe	22	23	47	84	32	15	42	18	23
Barton Moss	7	13	9	8	5	9	12	8	9

Lord Carlile of Berriew asked Her Majesty's Government:

On how many occasions physical restraint was used at Hillside Local Authority Secure Children's Home on, respectively, male and female clients during each of the 12 months prior to 1 November; and [HL622]

On how many occasions physical restraint occurred at Hillside local authority secure children's home in relation to, respectively, male and female black and ethnic minority clients during each of the 12 months prior to 1 November. [HL843]

Lord Adonis: Incidents of restraint in secure children's homes (SCHs) have been reported centrally to the Youth Justice Board (YJB) since February 2006. At present, information is not collected about the use of restraint by gender or ethnicity. However, the YJB will also be collecting these additional data from February 2007. In this context, restraint refers to occasions when “force is used to overpower a young person”. The numbers of incidents of restraints reported to the YJB in Hillside are listed in the table.

2006	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October
Hillside	3	1	4	6	6	7	4	0	0

Lord Carlile of Berriew asked Her Majesty's Government:

On how many occasions physical restraint was used at Kesteven House Local Authority Secure Children's Home on, respectively, male and female clients during each of the 12 months prior to 1 November. [HL623]

On how many occasions physical restraint was used at Kyloe House Local Authority Secure Children's Home on, respectively, male and female clients during each of the 12 months prior to 1 November; and [HL624]

On how many occasions physical restraint was used at Orchard Lodge Local Authority Secure Children's Home on, respectively, male and female clients during each of the 12 months prior to 1 November; and [HL625]

On how many occasions physical restraint was used at Redbank Local Authority Secure Children's Home on, respectively, male and female clients during each of the 12 months prior to 1 November; and [HL626]

On how many occasions physical restraint was used at Sutton Local Authority Secure Children's Home on, respectively, male and female clients during each of the 12 months prior to 1 November. [HL627]

On how many occasions physical restraint occurred at Orchard Lodge Local Authority Secure Children's Home in relation to, respectively, male and female black and ethnic minority clients during each of the 12 months prior to 1 November; and [HL840]

On how many occasions physical restraint occurred at Kyloe House Local Authority Secure Children's Home in relation to, respectively, male and female black and ethnic minority clients during each of the 12 months prior to 1 November; and [HL841]

On how many occasions physical restraint occurred at Kesteven House Local Authority Secure Children's Home in relation to, respectively, male and female black and ethnic minority clients during each of the 12 months prior to 1 November. [HL842]

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Lord Adonis: Incidents of restraint in secure children's homes (SCHs) have been reported centrally to the Youth Justice Board (YJB) since February 2006. At present, information is not collected about the use of restraint by gender and ethnicity but the YJB will also be collecting this additional data from

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February 2007. In this context, restraint refers to occasions when “force is used to overpower a young person”. The numbers of incidents of restraints reported to the YJB in Kesteven House; Kyloe House; Orchard Lodge; Redbank and Sutton Place SCHs are listed in the table.

2006	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October
Kesteven House (Lincolnshire)	1	5	4	10	10	16	11	12	30
Kyloe House	6	17	6	4	6	28	17	9	20
Orchard Lodge	3	8	2	21	9	10	14	27	48
Redbank	40	29	28	29	21	32	20	15	28
Sutton Place	9	8	7	14	38	25	18	6	11

Secure Training Centres: Physical Restraint

Baroness Stern asked Her Majesty's Government:

When the data covering staffing levels, use of restraint and non-accidental injuries in secure training centres for the period July to September 2006 will be placed in the Library of the House. [HL637]

The Minister of State, Home Office (Baroness Scotland of Asthal): 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 self-harm3	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 MSLs 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.

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