Drugs trialled on children at school for young offenders

Children at a school for young offenders were given drugs in an experimental trial approved by Home Office doctors in the 1960s, it has been reported.

National Archive files show that disruptive boys at Richmond Hill Approved School in North Yorkshire were given the anticonvulsant drug Beclamide for six months to see if it would control their behaviour.

The trial went ahead without their parents being consulted, the BBC reported.