Secure settings

We work with HM Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP) and other inspectorates to protect and promote the interests and rights of people who use health and social care services in secure settings.

This includes:

• health and social care in prisons and young offender institutions (prisons for young people aged 15-21)
• healthcare in immigration removal centres (holding centres for detainees awaiting decisions on their residency status or deportation following an unsuccessful application)
• police custody facilities.

Joint inspection reports

Adult prisons and young offender institutions (YOI): joint inspections with HMIP.
See published HMP and YOI inspection reports on the HMIP website.

Immigration removal centres (IRC): joint inspections with HMIP.
See published IRC inspection reports on the HMIP website.

Police custody facilities: joint inspections with Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS).
See published inspection reports on the HMICFRS website.

Secure children's homes (SCH): we support Ofsted with their statutory inspections.
See published SCH reports on the Ofsted website (SCH listed by reference number only).

Secure training centres (STC): joint inspections with HMIP and Ofsted.
See published STC reports on the Ofsted website

Youth offending teams (YOT): we contribute to joint inspections alongside Ofsted and HMICFRS. Inspections are led by HMI Probation.
See published inspection and joint thematic reports on the HMI Probation website.