Section one Context
The bodies which make up the UK NPM monitor different types of detention across
the jurisdictions, including prisons, young offender institutions (YOIs), police custody,
court custody, customs custody facilities, secure accommodation for children, immigration
detention facilities, mental health and military detention, as follows:6
Detention setting
Prisons and YOIs
Police custody
Escort and court
custody
Detention under the
Terrorism Act
England
Wales
Scotland
Northern Ireland
HMI Prisons with
CQC and Ofsted
HMI Prisons
with HIW
CJINI and HMI Prisons
with RQIA
IMB
IMB
HMIPS with
CI and SHRC;
MWCS
HMICFRS and HMI Prisons
HMICS
CJINI with RQIA
ICVA
ICVS
NIPBICVS
Lay Observers and HMI Prisons
HMIPS
CJINI
ICVS
NIPBICVS
IMBNI
IRTL
ICVA, HMI Prisons and HMICFRS
Children in secure
accommodation
Ofsted ( jointly with
HMI Prisons and CQC
in relation to secure
training centres)
Children (all detention
settings)
CCE
Detention under
mental health law
CQC
Deprivation of liberty
and other safeguards in
health and social care
CQC
Immigration detention
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Jurisdiction
CIW and HIW
CI
RQIA
CJINI
CI
HIW
HIW
MWCS
RQIA
CI and MWCS
RQIA
CIW
HMI Prisons
HMI Prisons with CJINI
IMB
Military detention
HMI Prisons
Customs custody
facilities
HMICFRS, HMI Prisons and HMICS
Deprivation of liberty legal safeguards apply only to England and Wales as part of the Mental Capacity Act 2005,
but organisations in Scotland and Northern Ireland visit and inspect health and social care facilities where people may
be deprived of liberty.
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