Section two The NPM in 2019–20 The CCE continued to work with the Children’s Commissioners for Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland to consult on emerging issues and concerns regarding children in detention or deprived of their liberty across the four nations. The CCE has also engaged with officials from the UK government’s Justice and Health and Social Care departments to represent the experiences of children in detention. The Care Inspectorate (CI) for Scotland continued to conduct unannounced inspections of secure accommodation for children throughout the year. This included inspecting detention settings and nontraditional detention settings such as care homes. In line with the introduction of new human rights-based health and social care standards, the CI has developed new quality frameworks for all service types, including services for children. CI’s new quality assurance framework will be used by inspectors when monitoring care homes for children and young people. The new framework has a greater focus on the human rights of people in detention. Criminal Justice Inspection Northern Ireland (CJINI) developed its police custody inspection methodology in 2019–20. It worked with other NPM members to develop the new methodology, which aims to examine the treatment of detainees in police custody more thoroughly by looking more closely at detainees’ police custody records. Together with RQIA, CJINI released its report on the safety of prisoners in Northern Ireland.190 The report highlighted areas for the Northern Ireland Prison Service (NIPS) to focus on to ensure better safety of people in prison. In November 2019, Jacqui Durkin was appointed as the new Chief Inspector for criminal justice in Northern Ireland. In 2019–2020, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) engaged in Independent Care Education and Treatment Reviews (ICETRs), following recommendations made in its interim review of restraint, seclusion and segregation (see ‘Secure hospitals for people with learning disabilities and/or autism’, p.16). CQC Mental Health Act reviewers provide expert input to these reviews, which are independently chaired, with work led by the Department for Health and Social Care. Healthcare Inspectorate Wales (HIW) began planning a national review of mental health crisis units across Wales. In previous HIW inspection reports, mental health crisis units were identified as settings requiring improvement. The purpose of HIW’s national review will be to identify themes, trends and concerns across these units. The fieldwork for this review will resume once COVID-19 restrictions have lifted. 190 CJINI and RQIA, November 2019, The Safety or Prisoners Held by the Northern Ireland Prison Service: A Joint Inspection by Criminal Justice Inspection Northern Ireland and the Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority http://www.cjini.org/ getattachment/3a70dd41-7bb3-430d-9901-3ed7a191cf94/The-Safety-of-Prisoners.aspx [accessed 27/08/2020] 65