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being inspected. RQIA also began work to
embed human rights more firmly in routine
inspections and to reflect this approach
more clearly in inspection reports. This work
was supported through a series of training
sessions delivered by a human rights expert.
A joint thematic review on the safety of
prisoners in Northern Ireland undertaken
collaboratively by RQIA and CJINI was
completed in September 2018. During this
review, RQIA identified a number of concerns
relating to the physical environment in the
Care and Supervision Unit (CSU) at Hydebank
Wood Secure College.
Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW)
implemented a new organisational structure
due to changes made in the Social Services
and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 which came
into force in 2016, and those brought about
by the implementation of the Regulation and
Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act (RISCA)
in 2018. CIW’s structure has changed from
a regionalised regulation and inspection
model to one that works across Wales. The
new CIW social care structure continues
to prioritise responsibilities relating to the
prevention of ill-treatment in children’s
homes and the examination of Deprivation
of Liberty notifications that come from adult
care homes.
To follow-up recommendations made about
the provision of social care for adults and
children in the secure estate, CIW continued
to conduct routine performance reviews
with local authorities throughout Wales.
During 2018–19 CIW also undertook an
informal survey with local authorities on
arrangements for the delivery of care across
the Welsh adult secure estate.
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In December 2018, the Secretary of State
for Health and Social Care asked the Care
Quality Commission (CQC) to undertake
a thematic review of restraint, seclusion
and segregation, following reports of
inappropriate use of seclusion and restraint
and excessive lengths of stay for patients.
The first phase of this work focused on
people who are cared for in segregation on
a learning disability ward or a mental health
ward for children and young people.
In March 2018 CQC highlighted to NHS
England and NHS Improvement concerns
about the high number of people placed in
mental health rehabilitation hospitals a long
way from home. As a result, NHS England
and NHS Improvement set up a team to
work with local health and care communities
to develop services capable of meeting
these people’s complex needs.
During the year CQC also provided training
on OPCAT and the NPM role to a range of
groups within its organisation, including the
overarching mental health group concerned
with the registration and inspection of
hospitals and social care homes. The new
Chief Executive of CQC, Ian Trenholm, was
appointed in May 2018.
The Children’s Commissioner for England
(CCE) continued to organise the NPM
Children and Young Persons sub-group,
which allows member organisations who
inspect and monitor places that hold children
to share knowledge and work jointly on
emerging issues and concerns. The CCE’s
team was expanded in 2018–19, which
meant that it could increase the number of
visits it undertook to places of detention or
areas in which children were deprived of
their liberty. The CCE team has since visited
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