Section three The NPM in 2016–17
in this area in March 2017.139 The CI also
commenced an inspection focus in two
further areas: dementia in care homes for
older people in order to support scrutiny of
the National Dementia Strategy; and child
sexual exploitation to ensure staff working
in residential care are able to recognise and
respond appropriately to support vulnerable
children and young people who may be at
risk.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC)
inspected the three high secure hospitals
in England between November 2016 and
March 2017, serving a warning notice on
the NHS trust that manages Broadmoor
Hospital following the inspection there. In
addition to its inspections of high secure
hospitals, CQC continued with its programme
of comprehensive inspections of all specialist
mental health services in England, work
which began in 2014. The CQC undertook a
national review of the way the NHS trusts
identify, report, investigate and learn from
the deaths of people using their services
in 2016. The report, Learning, candour and
accountability, published in December 2016,
identified missed opportunities to learn
from patient deaths and that too many
families are not included or listened to when
investigations are carried out. The report
has informed a programme of work across
the country to improve the action taken
following a death and to improve care for
future patients and their families, including
patients who die while detained by the state.
The Children’s Commissioner for England
(CCE) continued to conduct announced and
unannounced visits to children’s custodial
settings. During 2016–17, this work focused
on secure children’s homes in order to
understand the vulnerabilities of children in
this type of setting, and how their needs
were being met. The CCE also expanded
the focus of its visits to places of detention,
piloting visits to the six medium secure and
forensic child and adolescent mental health
service units in order to better understand
the children who are detained in these
settings, how the units function and their
interaction with the youth justice sector. In
addition, the CCE conducted research on the
provision of non-familial appropriate adults
to children in police custody to ascertain
whether and to what extent this contributes
unnecessarily to the period of time children
spend in police detention, and how that
period might be reduced.
The CCE continued to participate in the
National Care Leavers Forum coordinated by
Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service,
the work of which focuses on improving the
identification of young people in custody
who have previous care experience and
enhancing their access to entitlements.
Criminal Justice Inspection Northern Ireland
(CJINI) continued its programme of inspection
work and also commenced a thematic
inspection of prisoner resettlement in the
Northern Ireland Prison Service, on which it
will conclude in late 2017.
139. Care Inspectorate, 2017, THE KEYS TO LIFE: Report of the Care Inspectorate’s Inspection Focus Area 2014–2016,
http://www.careinspectorate.com/images/documents/3741/Keys%20to%20life%20report.pdf [accessed 13/11/17].
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