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Recommendation 6
6
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There needs to be greater recognition across the prison estate that some older prisoners will...
Recommendation
There needs to be greater recognition across the prison estate that some older prisoners will be unable to engage with the normal regime. Suitable activities and forums should be available to older prisoners to support their welfare and rehabilitation. We commend the excellent work done by some establishments, but provision of these is lacking in many prisons. HMPPS should ensure that guidance and best practice on regime provisions for older prisoners is applied across the prison estate. We recommend that all prisons have a designated older prisoner lead, who can ensure that the older prison population has a voice and is managed most appropriately. (Paragraph 55) The health and social care of older prisoners
Government response summary AI-generated
The government's response mentions NHS England and HMPPS working to support vulnerable patients in healthcare, but it does not address the recommendation for ensuring best practice on older prisoner regimes or designating older prisoner leads in all prisons.
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Government Response
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• We have produced a model of operational delivery for older prisoners, which collates evidence on best practice for older offenders, sets out the nature of the services and activities a prison should deliver and includes case study examples from across the estate. In addition, HMPPS (then NOMS) commissioned the charity RECOOP to develop the Older Prisoners Good Practice Guide, to help prisons consider ways in which the regime could be tailored to suit older prisoners. • Building on these documents, we are also, as part of the development of the older offenders strategy, exploring how best to embed good practice across the estate. The health and social care of older prisoners
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