Section one Context systems, known as 'cyber kiosks’, would provide faster digital forensic capabilities to examine seized mobile devices, including those handed over voluntarily. The SHRC’s concerns related to the apparent absence of proper safeguards around access to personal and sensitive data within this process.41 Court custody HM Chief Inspector of Prisons in Scotland drew attention to the potential for better use of video-link facilities, and a smarter approach to prisoner transportation. She proposed that this would provide financial savings and reduce the transport and prisoner risk, the numbers of prisoners attending for short procedural court appearances, and the inconvenience suffered by prisoners from long hours of travel or detention for very brief court appearances.42 In early 2018, the Government issued a public consultation on a strategy for court buildings and facilities in England and Wales.43 Immigration detention In July 2018, Stephen Shaw published a follow-up to his 2015 independent review of the welfare of vulnerable people in immigration detention, after the Home Office asked him to examine the extent to which it had adopted his recommendations and the impact this had on practice.44 He welcomed the Government’s progress in implementing his recommendations, reducing the use of immigration detention and the average length of detention, and improving conditions for those held. Nevertheless, he found ‘a gap between the laudable intentions of policymakers and actual practice on the ground’, particularly in relation to the number of vulnerable people held in detention. His recommendations included improvements to protections for vulnerable adults, strengthening quality assurance processes and their oversight, and proposals for devising alternatives to detention. The Government announced in July 2018 a commitment to further reforms to immigration detention, but suggested there was insufficient evidence to take a view on the issue of time limits.45 Of note was a proposal to increase transparency around immigration detention by publishing more data and by commissioning the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration to report each year on the adults at risk in immigration detention policy.46 41 Police Scotland Serving a Changing Scotland, https://www.scotland.police.uk/about-us/serving-a-changing-scotland/cyberkiosk, [accessed 05/12/19] 42 HM Inspectorate of Prisons for Scotland, August 2019, Annual Report 2018-19, https://www.prisonsinspectoratescotland. gov.uk/sites/default/files/publication_files/Annual%20report.pdf [accessed 14/01/20] 43 Ministry of Justice, January 2018, Fit for Future: transforming the Court and Tribunal Estate, https://consult.justice.gov.uk/ digital-communications/transforming-court-tribunal-estate/supporting_documents/hmctsstrategyapproachconsultation.pdf [accessed 14/01/20] 44 Stephen Shaw, July 2018, Assessment of government progress in implementing the report on the welfare in detention of vulnerable persons - A follow-up report to the Home Office, https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/ system/uploads/attachment_data/file/728376/Shaw_report_2018_Final_web_accessible.pdf [accessed 05/12/19] 45 Oral statement to Parliament, Home Secretary statement on immigration detention and Shaw report https://www.gov.uk/ government/speeches/home-secretary-statement-on-immigration-detention-and-shaw-report [accessed 05/12/19] 46 HM Government, December 2018, The UK’s future skills-based immigration system, https://assets.publishing.service. gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/766465/The-UKs-future-skills-based-immigrationsystem-print-ready.pdf [05/12/19] 23