Source · SPSO (Scottish Public Services Ombudsman)

Scottish Prison Service

SPSO (Scottish Public Services Ombudsman) Not Upheld Reference 201103744 Sector Prisons Category Progression Decided 01 June 2012

View Scottish Prison Service scorecard

Original decision on the SPSO (Scottish Public Services Ombudsman) website ↗

Full decision

Summary

Mr C, who is a prisoner, complained that the SPS delayed in identifying that he needed to take part in a particular offending behaviour programme. He had already participated in one programme, and felt that his needs had not changed since he began his sentence. He was unhappy that the requirement for the second course was not flagged up earlier and felt that this set back his progress.

The prison told us that feedback from the first programme assessed Mr C as having outstanding needs and that he needed to complete an additional course. As such, there was no opportunity for this requirement to be identified earlier in Mr C's sentence, so we did not uphold the complaint.

Related reading

View Decision Report 201103744 as a PDF (16.33 KB) Updated: March 13, 2018

View original on SPSO (Scottish Publ… website