National Preventive Mechanism Eighth Annual Report 2016–17 strengthen this introduced by Labour (which the NPM welcomed) were rejected at the Public Bill Committee by Prisons Minister Sam Gyimah MP and withdrawn.137,138 In January 2017, the NPM Chair also responded to a letter from Sam Gyimah, notifying him of the conclusions of a governance review of the Independent Monitoring Boards (IMBs). The Chair expressed satisfaction that the new governance model is an improvement on previous arrangements, but set out his concerns that the IMB secretariat would continue to be line managed by civil servants sitting in the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), which also has operational responsibility for most of the places IMBs monitor. With a view to strengthening its public profile and publicising its work, the NPM established a Twitter feed (@uknpm) in November 2016. During the year the Twitter feed was used to promote NPM projects, the detention-related work and reports of its members, and international developments related to torture prevention and detention. Through the year the NPM and its members worked with Professor Rachel Murray and Dr Judy Laing from the Human Rights Implementation Centre at Bristol University on two projects aimed at strengthening the NPM’s OPCAT compliance. The first project aimed to examine the extent of compliance of the lay visiting schemes within the NPM with OPCAT. The second project set out to identify how incidents of ill-treatment in detention/deprivation of liberty contexts are recorded and the mechanisms available to deal with them. Desk research was conducted during the year for both projects. Member-specific developments The Care Inspectorate (CI) and Healthcare Improvement Scotland led the development of Scotland’s new Health and Social Care Standards on behalf of the Scottish Government. Following extensive consultation and engagement with people experiencing, providing and commissioning care, the new standards were launched on 9 June 2017. The CI implemented major changes to its inspection methodology with effect from 1 July 2016. The new approach, to inspect against quality themes rather than quality statements, aims to enable inspectors to review the quality of care provided in a more holistic way, and shorter inspection reports will make it easier for people to access scrutiny findings. In addition to its ongoing inspection work, the CI carried out targeted scrutiny work throughout the year in relation to care homes, housing support services and care at home services supporting people with a learning disability. This work was undertaken following the publication in 2013 of Scotland’s 10-year strategy for supporting people with a learning disability. The CI published the results of its two-year programme of focused inspection work 137. Hansard, 2017, Prisons and Courts Bill (Third sitting), 29 March 2017 https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2017-0329/debates/fed3b6b9-d00b-449f-9a4a-35e3806682e4/PrisonsAndCourtsBill(ThirdSitting) [accessed 13/11/17]. 138. The Prisons and Courts Bill was dropped after the announcement of a snap General Election and Parliament was dissolved. At the opening of the new parliament in June 2017, there was no indication in the Queen’s Speech that the government intended to reintroduce prisons legislation, and a ‘Courts Bill’ was reintroduced without any of the previous provisions relating to prisons. 58