Section three The NPM in 2015–16 social services and regulated services, a framework that now explicitly includes the Inspectorate’s obligations under OPCAT to consider the extent to which the care and support provided helps to secure rights and entitlements for people. Healthcare Inspectorate Wales (HIW) continues to inspect and regulate hospitals with detained patients and has undertaken long-term training of staff in key areas of mental health and detention. The additional training has focused on aspects of the Mental Health Act 1983, including section 136, and the various statutory functions of the Mental Health Act review service, including the Second Opinion Appointed Doctor (SOAD). Training has also been provided on the Mental Health (Wales) Measure 2010. Over 2015–16 HIW commenced, for the first time, a programme of monitoring the implementation of the 1983 Mental Health Act for Patients in the Community on Community Treatment Orders (CTOs). HIW undertook three visits to Cwm Taf, Cardiff and the Vale and Aneurin Bevan health boards and plans to continue extending this work over the next period. Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland (HMICS) continued to deliver a rolling programme of custody inspections, and improve its independence and OPCAT compliance by ensuring that police officers seconded to work with HMICS do not form part of the custody inspection team. In all its inspections HMICS continued to consider solitary confinement, addressing factors that mitigate the negative effects of confinement in its reports. In late 2015 HMICS commenced a review of its custody inspection framework, ensuring it takes into account the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s human rights framework for adults in detention, which followed the Preventing deaths in detention of adults with mental health conditions inquiry. HMICS has also begun to monitor Fatal Accident Inquiries into deaths in police custody to ensure that any learning is reflected in the framework and general inspection methodology. In early 2016, HMICS conducted a significant review of all of the recommendations it has made since the creation of Police Scotland in 2013, which resulted in a number of recommendations and improvement actions being discharged. This review noted improvements in some aspects of custody delivery, although more needs to be done. Following The Public Services Reform (Inspection and Monitoring of Prisons) (Scotland) Order 2015, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons for Scotland (HMIPS) assumed responsibility for the everyday monitoring of prisons in Scotland, which is undertaken by around 150 volunteer Independent Prison Monitors through weekly visits. An Independent Prison Monitoring Advisory Group has been established to oversee and support the effectiveness of prison monitoring, which is chaired by a member of the Scottish Human Rights Commission. In March 2015 HMIPS revised its standards for the inspection of prisons in Scotland, which both the inspectors and monitors use in the performance of their respective roles. 29

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