| Recommendation |
Remarks |
| A.
1993-94 ANNUAL REPORT (5) 1. The situation of prisoners who
have successfully completed a VT course should be
reviewed with a view to enabling their
participation in the undertaking of appropriate
and relevant maintenance projects.
|
Not
agreed due to Market Testing initiatives. |
| 2.
The SPS should advise local managers to put in
place an appropriate monitoring system toensure
the maintenance of a high standard of catering. |
Agreed. |
| 3.
The SPS should work towards a situation where in
all establishments the midday meal is not served
before 1200 hours and the evening meal not before
1700 hours. |
Establishments
still working towards these targets. |
| 4. An
urgent review should be instigated in order to
modernise Orderly Room procedures and ensure, as
far as practicable, that justice is seen to be
done. |
Reviewed
and implemented. |
| 5.
The tackling of offending behaviour should be
made an integral and formal part of prison
regimes. |
Agreed
and actioned. |
| B.
HMYOI Dumfries - May 1994 (3; together with 36
points of note) 1. There should be a complete review
of the early morning procedures, including the
staff starting times, with the aim of introducing
a system whereby Yos/prisoners are provided with
breakfast immediately before starting work.
|
Not
yet fully introduced. |
| 2.
Attempts should be made to improve the
opportunities at Dumfries for vulnerable YOs,
particularly by the introduction of an offending
behaviour programme, or consideration should be
given to transferring such individuals to another
YOI or prison. |
Progressing
towards implementation. |
| 3. A
full-time Education Officer post should be
re-introduced with exclusive responsibility for
ensuring that education is on as comprehensive
and economic a basis as can be devised. |
Not
agreed. |
| C.
HMP Inverness - August 1994 (3; together with 18
points of note) 1. Educational services should be
reviewed as soon as possible and in any event not
later than at the time of the next inspection by
HM Inspectors of Education.
2. The two points,
as listed, which were the subjects of
recommendations in the 1991 SPS Fire
Vulnerability Study, should be actioned at the
earliest opportunity.
3. The Governor
should include in his next Strategic Plan
proposals for a new building to provide more
appropriately-sized reception and visits areas
and the numbers of convicted prisoners should be
monitored to determine whether there is a need
for that building to incorporate some additional
single-cell accommodation.
|
Agreed
subject to funding. One point still outstanding.
Agreed.
|
| D.
THEMATIC STUDY - September 1994 (3; with 3 points
of note) 1.
Greater use should be made of the female remand
units at HMPs Aberdeen and Inverness and HMYOI
Dumfries to provide certain prisoners with the
option of serving all or part of their sentences
in such a unit with the existing TFAs being given
the opportunity to become full-time staff.
2. The TFF hostel
at HMYOI Polmont should be developed as a
dual-purpose TFF hostel and open prison for
females.
3. The existing
regime at HMP and YOI Cornton Vale should now be
comprehensively reviewed.
|
Agreed
and being implemented in 1995 Likely to be implemented in
1995-96
Taking place by
December 1995
|
| E.
HMYOI Polmont - November 1994 (4; together with
22 points of note) For SPS HQ 1. Priority should
be given to the maintenance of team continuity
amongst present Senior Management - especially at
Governor I/C and Deputy Governor levels.
For Governor
I/C1. The Governor should review the staff
starting times with a view to the majority of the
early shift coming on duty at 0700 hours.
2. Consideration
should be given to the installation of an
all-weather surface in the football field.
3. There should be
a review of catering arrangements, possibly
involving the SPS Catering Adviser, which should
include the environmental health issues at the
points of delivery.
|
Agreed Agreed
Being reviewed:
cost may be a problem
This has been
actioned
|
| F.
HMP Friarton - January 1995 (3; together with 16
points of note) 1. The Governor, in conjunction with
SPS HQ, should consider the feasibility of
providing a new accommodation unit capable of
housing up to 30 Category ‘D’ prisoners
with a view to relieving overcrowding.
2. Regime Services
Division of SPS HQ should take an active lead to
secure more productive employment for Friarton.
3. Fire and smoke
alarms and a smoke extraction system should be
installed as a matter of high priority.
|
Now
being taken into account in future SPS Strategic
Planning. Agreed.
Noted - new
equipment now being tested.
|
| G.
HMP Dungavel - March 1995 (31 points of note) |
Still
being processed. |
