Section one Context Jurisdiction DETENTION SETTING England Wales Prisons and YOIs HMI Prisons with CQC and Ofsted HMI Prisons with HIW Scotland HMIPS with CI and SHRC IMB Police custody Escort and court custody Northern Ireland CJINI and HMI Prisons with RQIA IMBNI HMIC and HMI Prisons HMICS CJINI with RQIA ICVA ICVS NIPBICVS Lay Observers and HMI Prisons HMIPS CJINI Children in secure accommodation Ofsted ( jointly with HMI Prisons in relation to secure training centres) Children (all detention settings) CCE Detention under mental health law CQC Deprivation of liberty3 and other safeguards in health and social care CQC Immigration detention RQIA CSSIW CI CJINI CI HIW HIW CSSIW MWCS RQIA CI and MWCS RQIA HMI Prisons IMB Military detention HMI Prisons Customs custody facilities HMIC, HMI Prisons and HMICS The NPM’s biannual business meetings are its main forum for members to share findings, best practice, experiences and lessons from monitoring different types of detention and different jurisdictions. The NPM business plan is agreed by members and other decisions are taken at these meetings. This year, business meetings were held in November 2015 (Edinburgh) and just after the end of the business year in April 2016 (Belfast). NPM chair During this year, the NPM took forward its plans to appoint an independent chair, in order to advise and support the NPM in fulfilling its mandate. The post-holder will: • chair NPM Steering Group meetings three to four times a year and NPM business meetings twice a year; • support NPM members in developing and implementing NPM work and in fulfilling their NPM responsibilities; • speak publicly on behalf of the NPM and represent the NPM at meetings with external stakeholders. An advert for the chair was circulated and publicised in November 2015 and a panel made up of four members of the NPM steering group and one independent panel member (Professor Rachel Murray from Bristol University) sifted and interviewed candidates. At the April 2016 business 3. Deprivation of liberty legal safeguards apply only to England and Wales but organisations in Scotland and Northern Ireland visit and inspect health and social care facilities where people may be deprived of liberty. 11