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8. ACTION POINTS
8.1 A formal procedure should be used to identify prisoners suitable for onward transfer from Castle Huntly to Noranside (paragraph 2.10).
8.2 The Reception area in Castle Huntly should be improved (paragraph 2.13).
8.3 The ACT Group Meeting should be reinvigorated (paragraph 2.19).
8.4 Staff should be competent to deliver Act2Care (paragraph 2.20).
8.5 Access to education should be compatible with prisoners' other commitments on work parties or placements (paragraph 3.2).
8.6 A greater range of basic literacy programmes should be available (paragraph 3.3).
8.7 Education staff should have more access to accommodation areas to speak to prisoners and promote education courses (paragraph 3.7).
8.8 Up-to-date education promotional materials should be placed on notice boards in the accommodation areas (paragraph 3.7).
8.9 Arrangements to engage prisoners with literacy and numeracy requirements should be more proactive (paragraph 3.8).
8.10 Individual Learning Plans should have specific targets for prisoner learning (paragraph 3.11).
8.11 Communication between staff delivering education and vocation programmes should be improved (paragraph 3.20).
8.12 Instances of uniformed staff absence should not mean that work parties at Castle Huntly are cancelled (paragraph 3.23).
8.13 Quality assurance and improvement strategies in education should be formalised (paragraph 3.26).
8.14 Prisoners at Noranside should be able to see the doctor without a nurse being present (paragraph 4.4).
8.15 The level of addictions specialist input should be reviewed (paragraph 4.5).
8.16 Milk and coffee should not be stored in the medication fridge at Noranside (paragraph 4.11).
8.17 More health promotion literature for prisoners should be available at Noranside (paragraph 4.11).
8.18 The operations officer overseeing methadone administration at Noranside should be able to see what is happening (paragraph 4.18).
8.19 Noranside should undertake urinalyses according to Healthcare Standard 10 (paragraph 4.19).
8.20 The database held by the pharmacist regarding ongoing care of treatment of prisoners with chronic diseases should be shared with the healthcare team and put into GPASS (paragraph 4.20).
8.21 Prisoners should not be permitted to smoke outside their cells (paragraph 4.26).
8.22 The Open Estate Addictions Strategy should be updated (paragraph 4.27).
8.23 Self referral forms to the Enhanced Addictions Casework Team, and addiction literature, should be available in the residential areas as well as in the Links Centres (paragraph 4.32).
8.24 Referral arrangements to social workers should be clarified and better publicised (paragraph 5.8).
8.25 Prisoners' families should be offered the opportunity to be involved in the induction process at Castle Huntly and in the orientation following transfer to Noranside (paragraph 5.11).
8.26 A system should be put in place to allow prisoners to share their pre-or post Extended Home Leave concerns (paragraph 5.16).
8.27 The reasons for the delays in allowing some prisoners access to the Extended Home Leave scheme should be examined (paragraph 5.16).
8.28 Risk assessments should be conducted jointly by prison based social workers and prison officers (paragraph 5.24).
8.29 A record should be kept of personal officers' attendance at ICM Case Conferences (paragraph 5.25).
8.30 Community based social work attendance at ICM Case Conferences in Noranside should be improved (paragraph 5.25).
8.31 The reports provided by work placement providers should be included as part of Integrated Case Management (paragraph 5.27).
8.32 Critical ICM information should be available to all service providers and prison staff (paragraph 5.29).
8.33 Prison based social workers should input data directly on to the SPS computerised Prisoner Record System ( PR2) (paragraph 5.30).
8.34 Consideration should be given to bringing the work of the Case Management Board into the Integrated Case Management process (paragraph 5.32).
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