Sadiq Khan – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sadiq Khan on 2014-04-29.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) prisoners and (b) young adult prisoners were on suicide watch in HM Prison High Down on (i) 1 September 2013 and (ii) 1 April 2014.
Jeremy Wright
Prisoners who are identified as being at-risk of suicide or self-harm will be placed on an Assessment, Care in Custody and Teamwork (ACCT) Plan. ACCT is a prisoner focused care planning system which is used by prisons to manage and support at risk prisoners. The ACCT plan will include what level of observations are required for each prisoner which will be decided on a case by case basis.
At HMP High Down
(i) there were 62 prisoners on an open ACCT on the 1st September 2013, of which 6 were young adult prisoners
(ii) there were 33 prisoners on an open ACCT on the 1st April 2014, of which 2 were young adult prisoners.
