15.1 Issues to be taken up with the Governor on subsequent visits by the Inspectorate.

15.1.1 Local budgetary procedures should be reviewed to ensure that items in use of an unacceptable standard can be replaced by available new items on an as required basis (paragraph 3.3).

15.1.2 Arrangements should be made to ensure the consistent provision of up-to-date essential information for prisoners at all times (paragraph 3.4).

15.1.3 There should be a Dormitory Maintenance Strategy, aligned to the SPS’s Residential Operating Standards, which ensures an upgrading of all accommodation units with an effective monitoring and audit system in place to ensure its success (paragraph 3.6).

15.1.4 The early review of dormitory capacities should be undertaken (paragraph 3.7).

15.1.5 The existing dormitory recreation arrangements should be reviewed (paragraph 3.16).

15.1.6 There should be a review of all local rules to assess their purpose and relevance and also to ensure that they are applied consistently (paragraph 3.17).

15.1.7 The Governor should investigate the possibility of relocating the staff and visitor reception points and the key safe to enable the Officer working in the Gate area to be able to operate at each point simultaneously (paragraph 4.12).

15.1.8 A review of the punishments awarded for MDT related offences should be undertaken (paragraph 5.9).

15.1.9 A substitute opiate maintenance or detoxification programme should be put in place as soon as practicable with consideration being given to using the ten bed dormitory adjacent to Alba House (paragraphs 5.12 and 5.24).

15.1.10 Consideration should be given to increasing the level of frequency testing for those who produce positive tests, together with greater emphasis on rewarding those prisoners who provide drug free samples after failing earlier tests (paragraph 5.17).

15.1.11 A comprehensive record keeping system should be put in place within Alba House to facilitate continuous evaluation, with an independent evaluation of its role also being carried out to prove its effectiveness in achieving lasting abstinence for prisoners who have undergone this programme (paragraph 5.19).

15.1.12 Consideration should be given to the setting up of a multi-disciplinary Drug Strategy Development Group, including input from relevant community-based external agencies (paragraph 5.22).

15.1.13 The formal SPS document ‘Guidance on the Management of Prisoners who Misuse Drugs’ should be circulated widely throughout the prison and should, along with any other formal SPS guidance issued subsequently, form the basis for all future related strategic policy developments (paragraph 5.26).

15.1.14 A drug awareness programme should be developed for all staff, possibly including members of the Visiting Committee (paragraph 5.27).

15.1.15 A more comprehensive Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C strategy should be introduced, which would give consideration to the vaccination of prisoners and extend counselling and education on these issues, including HIV, to all areas of the establishment (paragraph 5.27).

15.1.16 The management of suicide related issues should be the responsibility of a group properly constituted in accordance with the SPS Suicide Risk Strategy and the role of the Suicide Risk Management Co-ordinator should be undertaken by an individual at management level (paragraph 5.36).

15.1.17 Prisoners with very few days left to serve of their sentence should not be transferred to Low Moss (paragraph 6.7).

15.1.18 Local management should review and upgrade the contents of the local information section within the SPS Prisoners Information Pack (paragraph 6.9).

15.1.19 A review of the present induction system should be carried out with the aim of introducing a coherent risk/needs assessment methodology (paragraph 6.12).

15.1.20 A Personal Officer scheme for all prisoners should be introduced along with some form of sentence planning scheme, initially targeting prisoners serving sentences of 6 months or over (paragraph 6.12).

15.1.21 The Labour Allocation Board should be chaired by a designated Regimes Supervisor and suitable personalised arrangements for the transfer of prisoners to the mainstream dormitories of allocation should be introduced (paragraph 6.13).

15.1.22 All prisoner programmes, including cognitive skills and Alba House, should come under the control of the Programmes/Activities Manager (paragraph 6.18).

15.1.23 Residential Officers should become the primary source through which all prisoner programmes are delivered with social workers or external agencies providing specialist support as appropriate (paragraph 6.19).

15.1.24 Local management should review the staffing position in order to provide prisoners with consistent access to a weekend physical education programme (paragraph 6.28).

15.1.25 Consideration should be given to brigading the physical education function under a manager whose objectives rely upon a quality physical education programme (paragraph 6.29).

15.1.26 Educational services should be properly marketed and publicised to prisoners (paragraph 6.34).

15.1.27 The range of the education curriculum should be extended and a system of assessment, accreditation and certification introduced (paragraph 6.34).

15.1.28 There should be a major review of library services to maximise prisoner participation (paragraph 6.35).

15.1.29 There should be a review of the Chaplaincy role with a view to increasing their representation and involvement in relevant areas (paragraph 6.46).

15.1.30 CCTV equipment in the visits room should be upgraded in accordance with the establishment’s strategic bid (paragraph 6.58).

15.1.31 Consideration should be given to the introduction of vending machines in both the visits room and the visitors’ waiting area (paragraph 6.59).

15.1.32 CCTV coverage or staff supervision should be provided at all times in the visitors’ waiting area (paragraph 6.60).

15.1.33 Options should be considered to extend the facilities for young children within the visits room (paragraph 6.61).

15.1.34 The role of the FCDO should be enhanced to include responsibility for improvements to visit related areas and allocation of relevant funds and also include line management reporting to the functional manager responsible for visits (paragraphs 6.62-63).

15.1.35 Meal times should be revised fully to comply with SPS Operating Standards (paragraph 7.4).

15.1.36 Alternative arrangements should be introduced to prevent the unhygienic practice of prisoners dipping their cups into the hot tea containers during work breaks (paragraph 7.7).

15.1.37. A store room should be made available within the Health Centre (paragraph 8.4).

15.1.38 Suitable arrangements should be made for the medical examination of admission prisoners to take place within the Health Centre and not the induction dormitory (paragraph 8.11).

15.1.39 Locum cover should be introduced to cover nursing shortages during periods of maternity leave (paragraph 8.17).

15.1.40 Appropriate Discipline cover should be available in the Health Centre (paragraph 8.18).

15.1.41 A more permanent pharmacy arrangement using a hospital or community pharmacy should be introduced (paragraph 8.27).

15.1.42 The staff toilet facility within the main residential dormitory area should be upgraded to an acceptable standard (paragraph 9.16).

15.1.43 A proper system of training with relation to SPIN related matters should be put in place and a proper quality assurance plan designed and implemented (paragraph 11.10).