Children at Vinney Green in Emersons Green have also been left “distressed” when supervisors confiscated items from their bedrooms without good reason, Ofsted inspectors found.
But their report said: “Most children spoken to identified staff as being the best thing about the home.”
Although the newly published findings from an inspection in November are mixed, they signal a marked improvement from the damning visit in 2022 that gave the South Gloucestershire Council-run home the lowest rating of inadequate.
At the time, Ofsted officials said children suffered “unlawful painful” restraint and unjustified solitary confinement for up to three days.
When they returned to carry out a full inspection a year later they upgraded the rating to “good”.
The latest visit suggests this has been maintained after the council accepted “practices were happening which shouldn’t have been” and took immediate action.
Up to 24 children aged 10 to 18 live at the unit, whose places are commissioned by the Youth Custody Service.
