Section four Looking ahead to 2017–18 National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) members agree a revised strategic plan each year. The NPM has agreed the following objectives for its work in 2017–18. • Work together with all members of the NPM to strengthen the protection of those in detention in the UK. • To build an NPM that is effective in delivering all the requirements of the United Nations’ Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture (OPCAT). • To ensure each NPM member delivers its own responsibilities under OPCAT. • To increase the visibility and awareness of the prohibition of ill-treatment in detention, the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, OPCAT and the role of the NPM in prevention. • Submit to the United Nations Committee against Torture’s periodic review of the UK. • Continue work to strengthen NPM governance and OPCAT compliance, working closely with government officials to achieve this. Specific projects that the NPM will undertake during the year include the following. • Provide training to NPM members and others on the NPM’s guidance on isolation in detention. • Undertake a second detention mapping exercise, to identify the number of people detained in the UK at a given time. • Continue the NPM’s thematic project on the transitions and pathways between different types of detention, which focuses on: pathways from police custody arising from mental health issues; transitions between children’s and adults’ custodial provision; pathways between secure mental health settings; pathways between prisons/IRCs and mental health settings. • Carry out work to determine the scope of the third thematic project to be undertaken by the NPM. 75