Section three Looking ahead to year five In 2012–13, NPM members have continued to monitor the treatment and conditions of detainees and contribute to the overall effective implementation of OPCAT in the UK. They will continue to monitor the implementation of their recommendations, with a view to preventing ill treatment in all places of detention. Plans for the NPM’s fifth year include the following: • appoint a new NPM coordinator • organise an event in April 2014 to mark five years since the UK NPM was designated, in conjunction with the Human Rights Implementation Centre at the University of Bristol • continue to monitor the area of de facto detention with the aim of producing recommendations to inspection/ monitoring bodies • develop the role of the subgroup for children and young people. Further meetings are planned, focusing on health, segregation/single separation of children in detention, and police and immigration detention of children. Meetings will be output-focused to allow coordinated action by the NPM on issues of concern relating to children in detention • discuss the NPM’s focus on deaths in custody and segregation/solitary confinement and isolation • develop and implement a protocol to ensure prisoners/detainees are protected from any sanctions arising from their communication with HMIP, IMBs or the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (the latter is not a member of the NPM) with the intention of rolling it out to other NPM members • review the membership of the NPM steering group, in line with the steering group terms of reference • strengthen dialogue with the UN Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture, with a view to the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) giving constructive guidance for particular areas for the NPM to focus on and strengthen • review the UK NPM’s working methods and compliance against OPCAT and subsequent SPT guidelines. 33