Durham

Although not desirable, accommodating two prisoners in a cell designed for one remains necessary in order to accommodate all in custody until the prison population growth slows. There are no current plans to alter the prisons operational capacity to facilitate maintenance projects. In respect of CSRA (cell sharing risk assessment), HMP Durham fully applies the appropriate policy.

There are no plans to reduce the population of HMP Durham to allow refurbishment.

Data will be reported and scrutinised daily with regards to the number of prisoners requiring and receiving first night health screening. This will be reported at the daily morning briefing and any gaps will be looked into to gain an understanding of what has happened to delay the process and to ensure this is then immediately followed up. The prison will trial a twilight shift which will allow greater time for the completion of some tasks in the reception area on a busy evening and support staff staying later in the prison to deliver key tasks such as enabling the healthcare team to deliver first night screening. The Governor will meet monthly with the Director of Operations for Spectrum to review progress against key deliverables, discuss and resolve enabling issues, and appropriately challenge performance gaps. The Governor will meet quarterly with the health commissioner to review areas of good practice and issues in relation to the delivery of health. This meeting will support the ability to directly challenge contractual issues which impact on the delivery of care to prisoners. The Governor will chair the local Health Delivery Board, where an amended agenda will encourage the open and transparent sharing of performance data from prison and health services and enable delivery issues to be resolved.

This will be managed via a number of measures including: Data will be reported and scrutinised daily with regards to the number of prisoners requiring and receiving inductions. This will be reported at the daily morning briefing and any gaps will be looked into to gain an understanding of what has happened to delay the process and to ensure this is then immediately followed up. The secreted items policy is updated to reflect the requirement for an initial induction. A B4 supervising officer will be allocated to and deployed to manage the segregation unit on a daily basis, drawing this resource from elsewhere in the residential profiles and providing a more consistent managerial presence which will support assurance processes. The prison will trial a twilight shift which will allow greater time for the completion of some tasks in the reception area on a busy evening and support staff staying later in the prison to deliver key tasks such as the initial induction/first night information.

We will seek direct support in the training of B4 case co-ordinators for HMP Durham from the National Safety Team. We will provide local support and guidance to managers to enable awareness of requirements to review ACCT documents and sign when completed. We will identify a B4 supervising officer role to undertake ACCT QA checks in healthcare. We will ring fence the safety team as far as is possible to enable more time for assurance. The Governor will review the staffing of the safety team, placing a non-operational colleague into the role of Head of Safety will prevent loss of hours to duty governor roles, and allow greater focus on safety as a whole. In addition, replacing the analyst role with a hub manager, will increase the scope of work that can be completed in this area and free up the time of the officer group to deliver face to face contact with prisoners. We will maintain staffing levels in the B4 supervising officer group to support delivery of tasks.