Section three Strengthing the NPM The mental health network, which brings together the different members who have a specialist interest in areas relevant to mental health detention in the UK, met twice during the year. This sub-group provides an opportunity for organisations with responsibilities for the monitoring and protection of people in health and social care detention settings to work collaboratively on issues with specific mental health impacts. The group is currently chaired by MWCS. The NPM sub-group focused on children and young people in detention continued to serve as a mechanism for NPM members to exchange information and intelligence, and to consider joint work on issues affecting detained children. The group is chaired by the Children’s Commissioner for England. During the October 2017 business meeting, NPM members agreed to the creation of a fourth sub-group focusing on police custody. Members agreed that the group would be chaired by HMICS. The sub-group will commence work in the 2018–19 year. 35 Visits and inspections The following table below sets out the number of inspections and monitoring visits by type of detention and jurisdiction carried out by NPM members during the year. Some places of detention may be subject to both inspection and monitoring or visits. An overview of each NPM member’s remit is provided in section 1. A dash in the following table represents no inspection or visits having taken place. It is important to note that not all places of detention may be inspected each year. Instead, inspections take place in a cycle of between one and five years, depending on the analysed level of risk (which may increase, leading to inspection being brought forward in the cycle).35 A number of separate places of detention may be visited as part of one inspection (for example, a number of court custody suites within one geographical location. Where this occurs, the following figures reflect the number of individual places of detention visited. The term inspection is used to refer to scrutiny of a detention setting by inspectorates or other bodies by paid staff, and the term visit refers to monitoring, visits or observations carried out by lay bodies or volunteers. Individual NPM members determine their own inspection timetables. For an example, see HMI Prisons, Inspection Framework, May 2017, Section 3 (inspection programming), available at https://www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/ hmiprisons/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2014/02/1.-INSPECTION-FRAMEWORK-May-2017-1.pdf, accessed 19 July 2018. 33