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TORY ministers must demand better data on the use of restraints on young people in care to end the “brutal handcuffing of vulnerable children,” MPs and peers have urged.
In a letter to Children’s Minister Claire Coutinho, the cross-party group slammed the “worrying prevalence” of vulnerable children being restrained and handcuffed unnecessarily by so-called “secure transportation providers.”
They blasted instances of innocent children outside the custodial system being restrained in such a way when they are being moved around by the authorities.
Evidence to peers from medical leaders, patient safety officials and the children’s commissioner has intensified fears that the Bill’s safeguards are inadequate, writes ADAM JAMES POLLOCK
Digital ID means the government could track anyone and then limit their speech, movements, finances — and it could get this all wrong, identifying the wrong people for the wrong reasons, as the numerous digital cockups so far demonstrate, warns DYLAN MURPHY
