Jun. 23 2022
Source Page: Care of women who are pregnant and post-natal in detained settings service specificationFound: and sexual health during pregnancy, prior to release from prison (including Release on Temporary Licence
Mentions:
1: None That is particularly relevant for prison allocation and management. - Speech Link
2: None at risk of pregnancy, for a start. - Speech Link
3: Adam, Karen (SNP - Banffshire and Buchan Coast) Dr Coleman, you spoke about sexual activity in prison. - Speech Link
4: None be to exempt prison placements. - Speech Link
5: None The bill would no longer have any impact on prison policy. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Hussein-Ece (LDEM - Life peer) the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman’s Independent investigation into the death of Baby A at HMP Bronzefield - Speech Link
2: Lord Wolfson of Tredegar (CON - Life peer) We are taking steps to ensure that courts have relevant information, including on pregnancy where known - Speech Link
3: Lord Wolfson of Tredegar (CON - Life peer) We must remember that most women in the prison estate have had very difficult pasts. - Speech Link
4: Lord Falconer of Thoroton (LAB - Life peer) Our concern is that there is a lack of experience in the Prison Service. - Speech Link
5: Lord Wolfson of Tredegar (CON - Life peer) My Lords, all new prison officers working within the women’s estate will complete a new module on pregnancy - Speech Link
Nov. 25 2021
Source Page: Letter dated 22/11/2021 from Lord Wolfson of Tredegar QC to Lord Hunt of Kings Heath regarding Prisons and Probation Ombudsman investigation into the death of Baby A - health response and partnership approach, as raised in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill committee stage. 3p.Found: Improvement (NHSE/I) to the PP investigation into the tragic death of Baby A at HMP Bronzefield
Mentions:
1: Victoria Atkins (CON - Louth and Horncastle) Lady asked me about women in prison. - Speech Link
2: Victoria Atkins (CON - Louth and Horncastle) We want to ensure that treatment that is given in prison continues beyond the prison gates, so that people - Speech Link
3: Victoria Atkins (CON - Louth and Horncastle) We have introduced pregnancy officers and mother and baby officers in every single women’s prison. - Speech Link
4: Victoria Atkins (CON - Louth and Horncastle) Prison officers are part of the civil service pension scheme, and the long and short of it is that prison - Speech Link
Found: Improvement (NHSE/I) to the PP investigation into the tragic death of Baby A at HMP Bronzefield
Mentions:
1: None discharged on a Friday or the day before a bank holiday, they may at the discretion of the governor of the prison - Speech Link
2: Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts (CON - Life peer) Added to that, the prisoner may well have been released from a prison that is some way from his home - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Gloucester (Bishops - Bishops) Research from the Prison Reform Trust found that children with a parent in prison felt invisible. - Speech Link
4: Lord Wolfson of Tredegar (CON - Life peer) and post-pregnancy service specification for health and justice commissioners. - Speech Link
Asked by: Baroness Harman (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many women were known to be pregnant in HMP Bronzefield in each quarter from September 2020 to June 2021.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
On 20 September the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) published a new policy on pregnancy, Mother and Baby Units and maternal separation from children up to the age of two in women’s prisons, which contains a range of reforms for improving the care of pregnant women. As part of the new policy, we have increased central data collection on self-declared pregnancies in women’s prisons. We are also publishing annual snapshots in the HMPPS Annual Digest. The first publication, covering July 2020-April 2021, shows that on average 26 women self-declared as pregnant across the women’s estate each week.
Whilst Assessment, Care in Custody and Teamwork (ACCT) is a national policy used across both privately managed prisons (PMPs) and public sector prisons, information within each PMP in relation to how, who, how many and why people are on an ACCT is held solely by providers and is not routinely held or collected by HM Prison and Probation Service Controllers’ Office/MoJ.
The number of pregnant women in HMP Bronzefield in each quarter, between January 2019 and December 2020, is provided below.
Quarter | Count of Women |
Jan - Mar 2019 | 7 |
Apr - Jun 2019 | 21 |
Jul - Sep 2019 | 28 |
Oct - Dec 2019 | 25 |
Jan - Mar 2020 | 16 |
Apr - Jun 2020 | 23 |
Jul - Sep 2020 | 25 |
Oct - Dec 2020 | 28 |
It is not possible for the weekly snapshots published in the HMPPS Annual Digest to be accurately converted into quarters.
Asked by: Baroness Harman (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many of those women known to be pregnant in HMP Bronzefield from March 2019 to September 2020 were under Assessment, Care in Custody and Teamwork (ACCT) monitoring for risks of self-harm and/or suicide.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
On 20 September the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) published a new policy on pregnancy, Mother and Baby Units and maternal separation from children up to the age of two in women’s prisons, which contains a range of reforms for improving the care of pregnant women. As part of the new policy, we have increased central data collection on self-declared pregnancies in women’s prisons. We are also publishing annual snapshots in the HMPPS Annual Digest. The first publication, covering July 2020-April 2021, shows that on average 26 women self-declared as pregnant across the women’s estate each week.
Whilst Assessment, Care in Custody and Teamwork (ACCT) is a national policy used across both privately managed prisons (PMPs) and public sector prisons, information within each PMP in relation to how, who, how many and why people are on an ACCT is held solely by providers and is not routinely held or collected by HM Prison and Probation Service Controllers’ Office/MoJ.
The number of pregnant women in HMP Bronzefield in each quarter, between January 2019 and December 2020, is provided below.
Quarter | Count of Women |
Jan - Mar 2019 | 7 |
Apr - Jun 2019 | 21 |
Jul - Sep 2019 | 28 |
Oct - Dec 2019 | 25 |
Jan - Mar 2020 | 16 |
Apr - Jun 2020 | 23 |
Jul - Sep 2020 | 25 |
Oct - Dec 2020 | 28 |
It is not possible for the weekly snapshots published in the HMPPS Annual Digest to be accurately converted into quarters.
Mentions:
1: Lord Garnier (CON - Life peer) to another prison—so you will go to the back of the queue, or moved to a prison which does not have - Speech Link
2: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (LAB - Life peer) and the prison system as a whole. - Speech Link
3: Lord Dubs (LAB - Life peer) We know that these people really should not be in prison at all. Prison does not help them. - Speech Link