CHILDREN IN PRISON

Early day motion 1727, tabled 1 March 2006 by Rudi Vis (Labour). Signed by 58 members.

That this House welcomes the investigation commissioned by the Howard League for Penal Reform, conducted by Lord Carlile, into the use of physical restraint, solitary confinement and strip searching of children in prisons and privately run child jails; and calls on the Government to implement all 45 recommendations in order to protect children, end the use of pain and isolation as methods of control and punishment, and to improve the care of children in custody in order to reduce the 90 per cent. reconviction rate.

Signatures by party: Labour 36, Liberal Democrat 14, Plaid Cymru 2, Social Democratic and Labour Party 2, Conservative 1, DUP 1, Respect 1, UUP 1.