Sally Keeble Northampton North MP, has called on the Government to set up an enquiry into the use of restraint in secure training centres following the death of Gareth Myatt at a centre in Northamptonshire.

She said that the jury’s findings at the inquest into Gareth’s death were a wholesale condemnation of the failures of the Youth Justice Board.  She said the Government must take urgent steps to review the workings of the YJB to deal with the shortcomings which the jury said had contributed to Gareth’s death.

She said, ‘Ill be seeking an urgent meeting with the new justice minister to deal with this matter which has been left unresolved since Gareth’s death three years ago.  The jury has found a lack of training, monitoring and accountability which should never have happened.  In addition the Government must withdraw its proposal to relax the rules on the use of restraint, set out in statutory instrument 1709.’

‘This has been an horrendous ordeal for Gareth’s mother, Pam, and she deserves every sympathy.  The priority must be to ensure that things are put right so that nothing like this can happen again.’