Prisoners: Dementia

(asked on 17th July 2018) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what guidelines his Department has issued to (a) private and (b) state-run prisons on the (i) treatment and (ii) accommodation of prisoners with a diagnosis of dementia.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 23rd July 2018

Governors and directors of private prisons are guided by the mandatory actions outlined in Prison Service Instruction 06/2016 on Adult Social Care.

Guidance entitled “Hidden disabilities: Dementia - Essential guide for prison officers” was issued to prisons by the then National Offender Management Service in 2011 and revised in 2013.

More recently, Her Majesty’s Prisons and Probation Service has issued the Models for Operational Delivery (MODs), which are six best-practice toolkits that underpin transformation of the male prison estate to all governors of public sector prisons and all directors of private sector run prisons.

The MOD for older prisoners gathers together key evidence, relevant literature and good practice examples from across the estate to aid governors in their planning, so that they can cater for the needs of older prisoners, including those with dementia, or at risk of developing dementia. The MOD was developed in consultation with a wide range of stakeholders, including the Prison Reform Trust, Resettlement and Care for Older ex-Offenders and Prisoners (RECOOP) and the Association of Members of the Independent Monitoring Boards.

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