Section three The NPM in 2014–15 for coordinated responses across services. The Care Inspectorate has also looked at how its inspections of care homes for adults with learning disabilities can better focus on people’s experiences and outcomes, and how their rights are promoted and protected. The National Council of the Independent Monitoring Boards has included the NPM role within its development plan, and a training and development working group will include the requirements of the NPM in all relevant training programmes for IMB members. The IMBs’ new national monitoring framework references OPCAT and provides guidelines to monitoring boards on how they should meet its requirements. The Independent Custody Visiting Association (ICVA) continued to take forward recommendations made during the development of the national standards. A working group commissioned to look at the feasibility of a national ICV report form has issued guidance to schemes on the recommended minimum information custody visits should be seeking to gather, and training modules. ICVA is exploring the possibility of reissuing its national standards every two years with the Home Office, as a way of ensuring the standards evolve in line with local practice. ICVA requested that a review be carried out to establish custody visiting schemes’ compliance with the codes of practice issued by the Home Office, as a result of concerns about the governance arrangements of some schemes nationally. In June 2014, the Care Quality Commission's (CQC) executive team and board received a paper on CQC’s NPM duties, to ensure that these were understood at the organisation's senior level. After proposing the creation of an NPM mental health forum to NPM members, CQC organised the first two meetings of the forum and agreed to take on the role of chair. In March 2015, CQC held an NPM workshop for staff working within CQC policy, inspection and equality teams as well as NPM members, at which the Human Rights Implementation Centre at Bristol University presented its findings on comparative research reviewing international monitoring mechanisms, commissioned by CQC in 2013. The Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC) and HMIPS started a joint programme of prison visits in Scotland. SHRC delivered a joint statement with the English and Northern Ireland National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) to the UN Human Rights Council on the human rights of people with mental health issues detained by the state.96 SHRC also worked with the Scottish Government, civil society and HIMPS in the implementation of the new system for independent monitoring of prisons. SHRC and MWCS worked together to progress a commitment in the mental health strategy for Scotland to improving human rights in mental health care, including considering ways to improve mental health services in places of detention.97 96 Scottish Human Rights Commission (2015), Joint statement on mental health detention to UN Human Rights Council at: http://www.scottishhumanrights.com/resources/policysubmissions/hrcdetmar15 (accessed 14/10/15). 97 The Scottish Government, Mental Health Strategy for Scotland: 2012-15. At: http://www.gov.scot/resource/0039/00398762. pdf (accessed 14/10/15). 55