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,
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