We heard this afternoon that our legal action against the MoJ's authorisation of pain-inducing restraint during children's journeys to/from secure children's homes (also only made possible by wonderful support from others) has succeeded. 1/4
Tomorrow is the 16th anniversary of 14-year-old Adam Rickwood dying. This young boy hanged himself after being inflicted with a pain-inducing technique - the so-called 'nose distraction' - in a child prison run by Serco. We're not finished with this particular legal challenge 2/4
(we're after other protections) but for now the threat of judicial review (we got as far as applying to the High Court) has stopped the infliction of pain as a form of restraint being authorised for use on children as young as 10 during their journeys to/from custody. 3/4
Adam asked officers what right they had to hit him on the nose. They had no right. And, 16 years later, these brutal techniques are now finally on their way to the history books. 4/4 
