Recommendation 9

Techniques specifically designed to cause pain to children should never be used as routine methods of managing offenders. Any use of such techniques should always be a last resort in the interests of safety from physical harm. None the less, we acknowledge the views of both Peter Clarke and Charlie Taylor that in the real- life circumstances of a Youth Offender Institution or a Secure Training Centre, the safety of staff and of of offenders themselves may on rare occasion require direct and immediate physical force that may inflict pain.