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mental health advocate if wanted, which it
considers a potentially crucial tool in securing
the rights of patients at risk of de facto
detention. The findings from this work will
inform the annual performance evaluations
of the relevant local authorities which will be
published in October 2014.
are developed. CQC began to develop its
frameworks for inspections of other secure
settings and started to explore ways of using
its enforcement powers to take forward its
NPM mandate in the light of a consultation
by the Department of Health on revisions to
its registration regulations.27
The Care Inspectorate is a recently
designated member of the NPM following
an institutional merger, and has a statutory
responsibility for the inspection of criminal
justice social work services under the
Public Service Reform (Scotland) Act 2010.
It is also responsible for the inspection of
offender accommodation services and
secure accommodation for children and
young people. During the year, the Care
Inspectorate took steps to develop its
approach to the scrutiny of criminal justice
social work, collaborating with other bodies
in Scotland, with a view to better evidencing
outcomes for vulnerable people within
the justice system, strengthening public
assurance and protection and reflecting
emerging national policy changes.
Criminal Justice Inspectorate Northern
Ireland (CJINI) published an inspection report
in December 2013 on Monitoring of Progress
on Implementation of the Youth Justice
Review Recommendations, which included
recommendations about youth custody and
the practices around sending under-18year-olds to the Young Offenders’ Centre.
In October 2013, inspection reports from
announced inspections (conducted jointly
with HMI Prisons, RQIA and the Education
and Training Inspectorate) of Ash House
Women’s Prison and Hydebank Wood Young
Offenders’ Centre were published. CJINI’s
Chief Inspector served as an independent
member of the Prison Review Team
Oversight Group, and inspectors continued to
monitor and report on the implementation of
the group’s recommendations.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) carried
out 1,292 Mental Health Act monitoring visits
to 1,356 wards where they spoke with 4,517
detained patients. CQC also carried out the
first of its newly designed regulatory visits
to mental health services. After consulting
on its 2013–16 strategy in 2012, CQC
published its response which sets out plans
to make sure its regulation of services and
Mental Health Act monitoring work together
effectively. CQC also undertook to continue
its work with national organisations to better
understand and fulfil its monitoring role
under deprivation of liberty safeguards as
case law and policy on deprivation of liberty
Healthcare Inspectorate Wales (HIW)
became responsible for collecting data
relating to the numbers of detentions under
Sections 135 and 136 of the Mental Health
Act in Wales, relating to both health- and
police-based places of safety. HIW worked
with counterparts in the health and police
sectors to ensure the accuracy of this data
before it could comment on the use of
Sections 135 and 136.
In January 2014, the Home Secretary asked
HM Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) to
undertake a specific thematic inspection on
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