Section two Focus on detention issues
into Destitution, Asylum and Insecure
Immigration Status in Scotland. CI took up
a position on the Secure Care Strategic
Board, which was formed with the aim
of delivering better experiences and
outcomes for Scotland’s most vulnerable
young people. Under the auspices of the
Secure Care Strategic Board, CI began
co-chairing a group to develop a
pathway for young people. This is aimed
at improving their experiences and
outcomes through a coherent set of
expectations and standards across the
continuum of intensive supports, ensuring
that they are treated with respect and
dignity and that their human rights are
upheld. The CI also took up representation
on the Programme Board for Health and
Social Care in Prisons and will contribute
to the work of this Board in developing
defined outcomes and associated
indicators for the health and well-being
of people in prison, the transition of their
care in and out of prison and developing
models for health and social care
integration in prisons.
• During the year, the CQC continued to
engage with the independent review
of the MHA, working with the review’s
advisory panel and working group. It also
carried out a collaborative evaluation of
the implementation of the MHA Code
of Practice with patients, providers
and experts, to help identify practical
solutions to improve areas of practice.
The evaluation focused on which service
and professional factors can have an
immediate impact on the experiences and
outcomes for people affected by the Act.
• In March 2018, the CCE chaired a
roundtable at 10 Downing Street which
brought together Dr Phillip Lee, the then
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for
Youth Justice, Victims, Female Offenders
and Offender Health, prison governors,
local government and voluntary
organisations to identify the policy and
operational challenges and solutions to
improving outcomes for children and
young people in custody.
• HMICFRS and HMI Prisons made joint
submissions in relation to the Home
Office Statutory consultation on the
revision of PACE codes C, H, E and F and to
the National Appropriate Adult Network’s
review of its National Standards. HMICFRS
also continued to regularly present its
inspection findings to the Home Office
PACE Strategy Board.
• HMI Prisons responded to a number
of consultations throughout the year,
including: the Home Office’s revision
of Detention Services Order ‘Care and
management of transgender and intersex
detainees’ and Detention Services Order
‘Surveillance Camera Systems’; the
Advisory Board on Female Offenders in
relation to the female offender strategy;
the review of the Dying Well in Custody
Charter by the National Health Service;
the Advisory Council on the Misuse of
Drugs consultation on the use of image
and performance enhancing drugs; the
London Assembly consultation on Women
in the Criminal Justice System; the review
of the Equality Monitoring Tool by Her
Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service;
the annual review by the Medway
Local Safeguarding Children Board of
safeguarding and the use of restraint
at Cookham Wood Young Offender
Institution and Medway Secure Training
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