Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody WORKPLAN 2024/25

Workstreams include: 

• Working collaboratively to improve investigations into, and data on, deaths under the Mental Health Act.

• Responding to the prison capacity crisis which has seen diminished access to purposeful activity, time out of cell, and key work.

• Building on the key strategic recommendations of the Angiolini review into deaths and serious incidents in police custody.

• Focusing on improvements to the operation of key safeguards in the immigration detention estate, in particular Rules 34 and 35, to improve the protective mechanisms for those who are most vulnerable.

Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody Workplan 2024/25