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PSO 2855 Page 11CHAPTER 3PRISON SERVICE POLICYPrison Service Policy Statement3.1 HMPS will treat all prisoners with disabilities with decency and without discrimination andwill offer them equality of opportunity in all aspects of prison life. Prisoners with disabilitieswill be offered equal opportunity to address their offending behaviour and will be treated ina safe and secure environment.3.2 HMPS will promote equality of opportunity for prisoners with disabilities.Local Statements of policy3.3 Governors must ensure that a local policy is in place to ensure that prisoners withdisabilities are treated in accordance with PS policy and this local policy must include howequality of opportunity for disabled prisoners will be promoted.3.4 A sample local policy is at Annex A. Governors may wish to incorporate disability into awider diversity policy which includes all aspects of diversity. Local statements of policy ondisability must be clearly displayed in the Reception area, First Night Centre, Induction wingand other prominent locations, including details of who to contact about disability issues,and kept up to date.Local contact point3.5 The Governor must nominate as Disability Liaison officer a suitable member of staff whohas regular contact with prisoners and is given sufficient time to act as a contact point toreceive information on policy issues and good practice and act as an adviser on disabilityissues in ensuring that disabled prisoners needs are met.3.6 Where necessary, and there are sufficiently large numbers of prisoners, Governors maywish to consider having a disabled prisoners committee with prisoner representatives; thiscan help to ensure the needs of disabled prisoners are addressed. In addition, wheregroups of prisoners with similar needs have been identified, focussed activities could beorganised. It is good practice to involve outside groups – see list at Annex I for contacts.The work of the DLO should be covered during absences to ensure that, for example,applications are still opened and prisoners do not have to wait until the designated officerreturns from leave to have issues dealt with.Issue No. 295 Issue date 3/04/08
PSO 2855 Page 12CHAPTER 4The Ministry of Justice Disability Equality Scheme4.1 The Prison Service has a staff Single Equality Scheme, which includes Disability, Gender,and Race.4.2 The Prison Service has contributed towards the Ministry of Justice Disability EqualityScheme to cover prisoner issues. The Disability Equality Scheme includes the requirementfor each establishment to draw up an Action Plan to address issues affecting the access ofdisabled prisoners to facilities and regime activities as required by the DDA. Thisrequirement is introduced as a Mandatory Requirement in this PSO along with the DisabilityImpact Assessment of all policies, both local and national.Drawing up an establishment action plan4.3 Access audits have been in place for some time and each establishment should already bedoing regular access audits of the prison layout and fabric. Those areas highlighted by theaccess audits, impact assessments and raised by staff and prisoners as preventing orrestricting disabled prisoners‟ access to the regime and prison facilities, should form thebasis of the establishment Action Plan. A sample Action Plan is at Annex E. The planshould also set out what actions the prison would need to take to tackle the problem, orwhat changes to procedures could be put in place to minimise the discrimination. If actionis planned within the life of the Action Plan, usually three years, this should also be setdown, together with milestones and review dates.4.4 The Action Plan should highlight areas such as improvements to the fabric of the prison,even where responsibility lies with NOMS. The prison action in such a case would be toraise the required improvements with NOMS, and follow up the request. The same appliesfor any thing which is an obstacle to a disabled prisoner‟s involvement in the life of theestablishment where the power to rectify or address the problem lies outside the control ofthe Governor.4.5 Any significant problem should be escalated to the Area Manager if it is not resolved withina reasonable period of time.4.6 The Action Plan does not just cover physical barriers and should include reviews of andchanges to local policies and practices, issues such as translation of information intoaccessible formats, and any local issue which may cause difficulties for or excludeIssue No. 295 Issue date 3/04/08
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