Welcome to the latest issue of The Investigator. In this edition, our first in lockdown, we aim to tell you something about how the work of the PPO is being delivered in these unprecedented and challenging times. Two articles, one focused… Read More
The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) has today published a report on the self-inflicted death in HMP Lewes of a 19-year man who had been assessed as a high suicide risk and whose transfer to a psychiatric hospital was mismanaged… Read More
The Home Secretary, Rt Hon Priti Patel MP, has issued the following Written Ministerial Statement concerning the PPO’s investigation into Brook House immigration removal centre: “I am announcing today the conversion of the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) investigation of… Read More
Welcome to the latest issue of The Investigator. I took up the post of Prisons and Probation Ombudsman in October 2018, so my first anniversary in the role coincided with the publication of the PPO’s Annual Report for 2018/19 earlier… Read More
As in previous years, the number of complaints from those under 21 in 2018/19 remained disproportionately small: accounting for just 26 of the 2,569 that we investigated. We know there are a number of reasons why young people do not… Read More
The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) stepped up work in 2018-19 to ensure its repeated recommendations for improvements following deaths in custody and investigations of complaints have a stronger impact in practice. Sue McAllister published her report for the year,… Read More
Reviewing the PPO/HMPPS Impact Symposium 2019. Since April 2012, we have made over 10,000 recommendations (including those repeated) in the course of 1,996 investigations into deaths in custody. Virtually all of those are accepted by the prison at the time… Read More
The Ombudsman set expectations for the day by posing a series of questions to delegates, encouraging them to consider the impact of the PPO’s recommendations, and what more collectively we could do to change behaviours, embed learning and avoid repeating… Read More
You can be sure one of the things that impresses a new Ombudsman is the quantity of property complaints we get in the office. It’s no secret that about a third of the complaints we investigate relate to property and… Read More
Every issue of The Investigator provides you with the headline statistics from PPO’s work in the previous complete quarter. These headlines will cover the Ombudsman’s independent investigations of both complaints and fatal incidents. If you would like to know more,… Read More