Section two The NPM in 2018-19 youth justice, mental health and social care institutions more frequently. During 2018–19, Healthcare Inspectorate Wales (HIW) received additional funding that will enable it to appoint more inspection and support staff and strengthen its work programme in 2019–20. HIW has also altered its inspection methodology to take into account changes to the Mental Health Act, introduced by the Police and Crime Act 2017. In 2018–19 HIW experienced increased public and media interest in its work, with the organisation more frequently being asked to speak at public events. Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) has continued to influence improvements to standards in police custody and outcomes for detainees by engaging positively with the national police lead for custody in England and Wales, and by presenting to the national police custody forums. It has also actively sought to help forces improve by offering opportunities for police officers delivering custody services to shadow inspections and increase their understanding of the services expected and to take good practice back to their own forces. one family detention unit, eight short-term holding facilities, and two charter flight removals. It also inspected police custody suites in seven force areas with HMICFRS, TACT suites around the country, three court custody areas, and one extra-jurisdiction inspection at a prison in Northern Ireland. HMI Prisons inspections are carried out against published criteria known as ‘Expectations’. During 2018–19, HMI Prisons published two revised sets of Expectations and, with HMICFRS, its first criteria of assessment for the treatment of and conditions for detainees held in designated TACT custody suites, which hold those detained for terrorismrelated offences. In addition to this HMI Prisons published thematic reports on: close supervision centres in prison; social care in prisons in England and Wales (with CQC); an analysis of children’s perceptions of their experiences in secure training centres and young offender institutes; and a review of the management and supervision of men convicted of sexual offences. Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons (HMI Prisons) published 73 inspection reports in 2018–19. These included inspection reports on 35 prisons holding adult men, three prisons holding adult women, four inspections of young offender institutions (YOIs) holding children under the age of 18, and four inspections of three secure training centres (STCs) holding children aged 12 to 18, carried out jointly with Ofsted. HMI Prisons inspected four immigration removal centres, 43

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