Recommendation 11

Independent Monitoring Boards play a vital role in ensuring that prisoners are safe, healthy and engaged in effective regimes. However, the lack of oversight provided by IMBs during a significant period of turmoil and unrest at HMP Parc causes us great concern. Recruiting public appointees to staff IMBs in the current context of a cost-of-living crisis is undoubtedly hard, but renewed efforts and innovative approaches are required to ensure that IMBs in Wales are sustainably and sufficiently resourced to carry out their vital oversight functions. (Conclusion, Paragraph 44)