Section two The NPM in 2018-19 the prison should be returned from the contractors, G4S, to HMPPS and immediate measures were put in place to address conditions for prisoners. • CIW joined HMI Prisons and CQC to undertake a thematic review of social care in prisons in England and Wales. CIW carried out fieldwork at HMP Cardiff where it identified good practice around the initial screenings and assessments by local authority social care teams, which took place within 24 hours of an individual’s entry into prison. • CJINI continues to conduct prison visits with other NPM members, such as RQIA and the IMB in Northern Ireland. This provides additional resources to enhance the thoroughness of its inspections, allows sharing of inspection methodologies, and enables comparisons to be made with prisons in England and Wales. It also enables the South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust, which provides health care services in Northern Ireland’s prisons, to be inspected and held accountable for services delivered. The IMB is a key partner in providing information to the inspectorates about the ongoing issues in the prison and the experiences of detainees, which members gain from the regularity of their visits; this can be used to inform the inspection findings and recommendations. A joint inspection of police custody with RQIA is planned for 2019–20. Submitting proposals and observations on legislation OPCAT requires NPMs to submit proposals and observations to existing or draft legislation to support the prevention of torture and ill-treatment in places of detention. There are a number of ways NPM members are consulted on, or seek to influence, the development of detention policy and legislation using the evidence from their monitoring of the treatment of and conditions for detainees.104 Most commonly, NPM members contribute to formal policy consultations, Parliamentary inquiries, and draft legislation, as well as direct discussions with policy makers and politicians. For example: • CI sat on the reference group of the Scottish Government-commissioned review of mental health services for young people in custody. This followed the self-inflicted deaths of two people at HMP YOI Polmont, and was carried out by an independent expert for HMIPS. CI also submitted evidence to: the Justice Committee in Scottish Parliament’s investigation into secure care provision; the Age of Criminal Responsibility (Scotland) Bill; a consultation on the Protection of Vulnerable Groups and the Disclosure of Criminal Information; and a review of part one of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995, which reviewed the creation of a family justice modernisation strategy. • SHRC gave written evidence to the Scottish Equality and Human Rights Committee inquiry into Prisoner Voting. SHRC drew on jurisprudence from the European Court of Human Rights in its 104 Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Art. 19, A/RES/57/199, 2002, available at https://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/OPCAT.aspx [accessed 14/01/20] 47