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Documents
- “It’s time things change”: Priorities for detention for the Department of Health and Social Care’s suicide prevention strategy
- “More than a paper exercise” – Enhancing the impact of Prevention of Future Death Reports
- 1 June 2020 meeting minutes
- 1 September 2020 meeting minutes
- 10 December 2024 meeting minutes
- 10 November 2022 meeting minutes
- 11 October 2021 meeting minutes
- 11 September 2023 meeting minutes
- 12 December 2018 meeting minutes
- 12 December 2022 meeting minutes
- 12 December 2023 meeting minutes
- 13 August 2024 meeting minutes
- 13 December 2021 meeting minutes
- 14 April 2020 Covid-19 meeting minutes
- 15 December 2020 meeting minutes
- 15 January 2020 meeting minutes
- 15 September 2021 meeting minutes
- 16 February 2021 meeting minutes
- 16 June 2021 meeting minutes
- 16 October 2024 meeting minutes
- 17 January 2018 meeting minutes
- 17 July 2018 meeting minutes
- 17 May 2021 meeting minutes
- 18 March 2020 Covid-19 meeting minutes
- 18 March 2021 meeting minutes
- 18 October 2019 meeting minutes
- 19 April 2021 meeting minutes
- 19 February 2024 meeting minutes
- 19 January 2021 meeting minutes
- 2 December 2020 meeting minutes
- 2 May 2019 meeting minutes
- 21 October 2020 meeting minutes
- 21 September 2020 meeting minutes
- 22 April 2024 meeting minutes
- 24 March 2020 Covid-19 meeting minutes
- 24 October 2018 meeting minutes
- 26 January 2022 meeting minutes
- 26 January 2023 meeting minutes
- 26 May 2022 meeting minutes
- 26 September 2019 meeting minutes
- 27 January 2025 meeting minutes
- 27 June 2023 meeting minutes
- 27 June 2024 meeting minutes
- 28 April 2022 meeting minutes
- 28 April 2023 meeting minutes
- 28 February 2023 meeting minutes
- 28 July 2020 meeting minutes
- 29 April 2020 meeting minutes
- 29 September 2022 meeting minutes
- 3 June 2019 meeting minutes
- 3 November 2020 meeting minutes
- 30 January 2019 meeting minutes
- 31 July 2023 meeting minutes
- 31 March 2020 Covid-19 meeting minutes
- 4 December 2019 meeting minutes
- 4 July 2022 meeting minutes
- 4 March 2025 meeting minutes
- 5 August 2021 meeting minutes
- 5 June 2018 meeting minutes
- 5 May 2020 Covid-19 meeting minutes
- 5 September 2018 meeting minutes
- 6 October 2020 meeting minutes
- 7 March 2022 meeting minutes
- 8 November 2021 meeting minutes
- 9 March 2020 meeting minutes
- A proposal for embedding staff and prisoner safety in all major decisions
- AA final report
- AA Response to recommendations
- AB - investigation report
- AB -NOMS response to recommendations
- AC - investigation report
- AC - response from NHS England
- AC - response to recommendations
- AD investigation - update on the Brunel unit
- Advice on self-inflicted deaths and self-harm at HMP Woodhill
- Analysis of Serious Untoward Incident Reports
- April 2016 newsletter
- April 2017 newsletter
- April 2022 newsletter
- AR investigation report
- Assessing the Risk Factors Contributing to Premature Mortality among Detained Psychiatric Patients: A Scoping Review
- Assessing the Risk Factors Contributing to Premature Mortality among Detained Psychiatric Patients: A Scoping Review
- August 2021 newsletter
- August 2022 newsletter
- August 2022 newsletter
- Avoidable natural deaths in prison custody: putting things right
- Centre for Mental Health’s review to guide the future of prison mental health care in England
- Code of Practice
- Common principles for safer restraint
- CR - HMPPS response to recommendations
- CR final investigation report
- Criminal justice joint evidence review on ‘neurodiversity in the criminal justice system’
- Dale Simon report
- Deaths in Custody: The impact of Coroners’ Rule 43 reports on organisational learning
- Digest of IAPDC and NPCC roundtable event on preventing suicide following police custody
- DM - HMPPS response to recommendations
- DM - investigation report
- Effective community sentences and the role treatment requirements can play in preventing deaths in custody
- Embedding recommendations to prevent deaths in custody
- End of term report - August 2016
- End of term report - February 2012
- End of term report - February 2023
- End of term report - March 2015
- Evidence to Sir Simon Wessley
- Family liaison common standards and principles
- Family Listening Day
- Family listening day follow-up letter
- Final JL report - Professor McDougall
- Final report of an independent investigation into the case of Mr North
- First letter from Kit Malthouse MP and Juliet Lyon CBE to PCCs
- Forum for Preventing Deaths in Custody: Report on Article 2-compliant investigation of deaths in custody
- Guidance on preventing suicides in and following police custody in England and Wales
- Guidelines for the Management of Excited Delirium / Acute Behavioural Disturbance (May 2016)
- HM - HMPPS response to recommendations
- HM - investigation report
- HMPPS response to Dale Simon report
- HMPPS response to Rob Allen report
- Home Affairs Select Committee inquiry on ‘black people, racism and human rights’
- Home Office response to IAPDC – Illegal Migration Bill
- Home Secretary response to IAPDC - Rwanda (July 2022)
- Home Secretary response to IAPDC – Rwanda
- IAPDC and HMPPS agreement on reducing and preventing deaths in prison (July 2023)
- IAPDC Chair's end of term report - February 2026
- IAPDC Chair's mid-term report - February 2023-August 2024
- IAPDC Listening Day Report - September 2011
- IAPDC Listening Day Report (August 2010)
- IAPDC meeting minutes May 2025
- IAPDC statistical analysis of recorded deaths in custody between 2017 and 2021
- Illegal Migration Minister response to IAPDC - detention safeguards
- Immigration Minister response to IAPDC - Manston
- Independent investigation into an incident of life-threatening self-harm involving ‘AF’[1] at HMP Leicester on 6 May 2016
- Independent investigation into an incident of life-threatening self-harm involving ‘Mr Idris’[1] at HMP Swansea on 24 October 2015
- Independent investigation into an incident of life-threatening self-harm involving ‘MT’[1] at HMP Bristol on 15 January 2018
- Independent investigation into an incident of serious assault involving ‘AE’[1] at HMP Nottingham on 2 June 2015
- Inside time report of main findings 2017
- Inside Time report of outcomes 2020
- Inside Time: December 2021
- Inside Time: November 2021
- Inside Time: September 2021
- Intermediate sentences for public protection (IPPs): preventing self-harm and deaths in custody
- Investigating deaths under the Mental Health Act: The need for independence and parity
- January 2017 newsletter
- January 2021 newsletter
- January 2023 newsletter
- Joint letter to Health and Justice secretaries asking for a thorough review of impact of COVID-19
- July 2012 newsletter
- July 2013 newsletter
- July 2014 newsletter
- July 2015 newsletter
- July 2017 newsletter
- Justice Secretary response to IAPDC
- Justice Secretary response to IAPDC - sentencing review
- Justice Select Committee inquiry on ‘mental health in prison’
- Justice Select Committee inquiry on ‘the future of legal aid’
- Keeping safe - preventing suicide and self-harm in custody
- Keeping Safe 2020 presentation
- Keeping Safe 2020 Programme
- Learning from bereaved families
- Letter from Justice Secretary to IAPDC - White Paper: Reforming the Mental Health Act
- Letter to Border Security and Asylum Minister - safe capacity and detention safeguards
- Letter to Chancelloer of the Duchy of Lancaster, asking for urgent response to life-threatening heat in custody
- Letter to Chief Inspector of Probation – awareness of investigations
- Letter to Chief Medical Officer - public health in detention
- Letter to Chief Secretary to the Treasury – Community Sentence Treatment Requirements
- Letter to HMPPS DGO, homicides and vulnerable prisoners
- Letter to Home Secretary - Illegal Migration Bill
- Letter to Home Secretary - Rwanda (10 June 2022)
- Letter to Home Secretary - Rwanda (October 2022)
- Letter to Home Secretary raising a number of concerns about the risk to life posed by the Illegal Migration Bill
- Letter to Illegal Migration Minister
- Letter to Immigration Minister - Manston (October 2022)
- Letter to Immigration Minister – Manston
- Letter to Justice Secretary
- Letter to Justice Secretary - community sentences
- Letter to Justice Secretary - IPP sentences
- Letter to Justice Secretary - Justice Select Committee report
- Letter to Lord Timpson - ligatures
- Letter to MBDC Ministers - alcohol and drug-related deaths in custody and the community
- Letter to Mental Health Minister - data on deaths, independent investigations, reform of the Mental Health Act, and access to mental health services
- Letter to Mental Health Minister - policing and mental health, data on deaths, and suicide prevention
- Letter to Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Justice - IAPDC’s ‘Preventing the deaths of women in prison’ report
- Letter to Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Justice - safety impact assessment
- Letter to Policing Minister - Community Sentence Treatment Requirements
- Letter to Policing Minister - deaths in police custody (August 2023)
- Letter to Policing Minister - post custody suicides, Right Care, Right Person, and diversion away from custody
- Letter to Policing Minister – Community Sentence Treatment Requirements
- Letter to Prime Minister - sentencing review
- Letter to Prisons and Probation Minister - IAPDC’s ‘Keeping safe - preventing self-harm and suicide in custody’ report
- Letter to Prisons and Probation Minister - safety impact assessment
- Letter to Prisons Minister - capacity, safety and access to mental health services
- Letter to Prisons Minister - HMPPS safety programme
- Letter to Prisons Minister - IPP prisoners
- Letter to Prisons Minister - prison capacity and safety
- Letter to Secretary of State for Justice – investigation of deaths in custody
- Letter to the Mental Health Minister - patient safety and offenders’ access to care
- Letter to the Rt Hon Robert Jenrick MP raising urgent concerns about the death of a man detained at Manston
- Letter to the Rt Hon Robert Jenrick MP, Minister for Immigration, regarding the “drastic deterioration in conditions” at Manston
- Letter to Youth Custody Estate Services Director - 18-year-olds in the youth custody estate
- Ligature deaths in prisons in England and Wales: trends and reduction strategies
- Lord Farmer’s review of women in the criminal justice system
- March 2012 newsletter
- March 2013 newsletter
- May 2023 newsletter
- May 2024 newsletter
- MBDC Ministers’ response to IAPDC - alcohol and drug-related deaths in custody and the community
- Mental disorders and deaths in custody: Making the case for mental health literacy
- Mental Health Act Minister response to IAPDC - patient safety and offenders' access to care
- Mid-term report - May 2018
- Minister for Border Security and Asylum response to IAPDC - safe capacity and detention safeguards
- Mr Adakite - NHS England response to recommendations
- Mr Adakite- investigation report
- Mr Adakite- response to recommendations
- Mr Atlantic - investigation report
- Mr Atlantic - response to recommendations
- Mr Everest - HMPPS response to recommendations
- Mr Everest - investigation report
- Mr Midland - investigation report
- Mr Midland – HMPPS response to recommendations
- Mr Quartz - response to recommendations
- Mr Quartz investigation report
- Mr Quartz- investigation report
- NHS England response to Rob Allen report
- NHS England response to Rob Allen report – Appendix A - Liaison and Diversion Court Report – 2018
- NHS England response to Rob Allen report (10 May 2021)
- November 2012 newsletter
- November 2014 newsletter
- November 2015 newsletter
- November 2023 newsletter
- ONS: Drug-related deaths and suicide in prison custody in England and Wales 2008-2016
- Panel letter to the Home Secretary about the proposals introduced in the Illegal Migration Bill
- PL investigation report
- Policing Minister response to IAPDC - post-custody suicides, Right Care, Right Person, and diversion away from custody
- Policing Minister response to IAPDC – Community Sentence Treatment Requirements
- Preventing deaths at point of arrest, during and after police custody
- Preventing the death of women in prison – March 2017
- Preventing the Deaths of Women in Prison
- Priorities for a prevention of death strategy in Immigration Removal Centres
- Prison Governors Association speech: Andrea Albutt
- Prison overcrowding and deaths in England and Wales: findings from a predictive analysis and modelling study
- Prisons and Probation Minister response to IAPDC - IPP sentences
- Prisons Minister response to IAPDC - HMPPS safety programme
- Prisons Minister response to IAPDC - IPP prisoners
- Prisons Minister response to IAPDC - prison capacity, safety, and access to mental health services
- Prisons Minister response to IAPDC about the use of PAVA in prisons
- Protecting lives: a cross-system approach to addressing alcohol and drug-related deaths within the criminal justice system
- Psychosocial influences on prisoner suicide: A case-control study of near-lethal self-harm in women prisoners
- Quick-time learning bulletin - safer cells
- Read the report: Alternatives to the use of restraint
- Register of Interests
- Report of the IAPDC's cross sector restraint deaths workshop
- Response from Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Immigration Compliance and Courts - Community Sentence Treatment Requirements
- Response from Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Justice - community sentences
- Response from Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Justice - IAPDC’s ‘Preventing the deaths of women in prison’ report
- Response from Patient Safety, Suicide Prevention and Mental Health Minister - Community Sentence Treatment Requirements
- Response to AR independent investigation
- Response to JL Investigation
- Response to Mr North investigation report
- Response to PL independent investigation
- Response to recommendations
- Response to Reforming the Mental Health Act White Paper
- Response to SR Independent Investigation
- Response to the Home Office Review of investigatory arrangements which follow police use of force and police driving incidents
- Response to the Prisons Strategy White Paper consultation
- Review of medical theories of restraint deaths - Care Solutions UK Ltd
- Review of Rule 43 and narrative reports of restraint deaths
- Rob Allen report
- Samaritans Speech
- Second letter from Kit Malthouse MP and Juliet Lyon CBE to PCCs
- Selena Lynch report for publication - October 2011
- Sentencing Council’s consultation on sentencing offenders with mental health conditions or disorders
- September 2024 newsletter
- Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions call for input on deaths in custody
- SR investigation report
- TA - HMPPS response to recommendations
- TA - investigation report
- Terms of reference
- The Fulton Report: Review of the forum for preventing deaths in custody
- The Fulton Report: Review of the forum for preventing deaths in custody - Robert Fulton
- The Independent Human Rights Act Review
- UN Special Rapporteur on extra-judicial, summary, or arbitrary executions call for input on deaths in custody
- WA - HMPPS response to recommendations
- WA - NHS England response to recommendations
- WA – NHS England supplementary response to recommendations
- WA- investigation report
- Winter Newsletter 2021
- Work programme 2020/21
- Work programme 2021/22
- Work programme 2024/25
- Work programme 2025/26
- Work programme April - October 2023
- Workstream paper on Article 2-compliant investigations
News Articles
- Avoidable deaths in police custody: more can be done to protect lives says IAPDC
- Chief Inspector’s annual report is a dire reminder of the risk to life in our closed institutions
- Coping with Covid: Lockdown measures causing a mental health crisis in prison
- Data show significant and worrying increase in police-related deaths
- Dr Jake Hard reappointed to IAPDC
- Emergency measures to tackle prison overcrowding are a short-term solution to a long-term problem
- Former IAPDC Chair, Juliet Lyon, gives evidence to the Justice Committee
- Government Public Appointments Team seek to recruit new IAPDC chair
- Greater focus and ambition needed to prevent suicide in detention
- Guidance on preventing suicides in and following police custody in England and Wales
- IAPDC and NPCC lead project on post-police custody suicides
- IAPDC asks for urgent response to life-threatening heat in custody
- IAPDC asks Immigration Minister for urgent clarification on the “drastic deterioration in conditions” at Manston
- IAPDC calls for “watershed moment for change” following Brook House inquiry report
- IAPDC calls for thorough review of impact of COVID-19 in joint letter to Health and Justice secretaries
- IAPDC Chair, Lynn Emslie, highlights key work to prevent custody deaths in her mid-term report
- IAPDC Chair’s end of term report – February 2026
- IAPDC finds death rates in prisons and under the Mental Health Act disproportionately high
- IAPDC hosts virtual self-harm in prison seminar
- IAPDC publish spring edition of PSG newsletter
- IAPDC publish winter edition of newsletter to PSG colleagues
- IAPDC publishes mid-term report
- IAPDC publishes new workplan
- IAPDC publishes the Spring edition of its newsletter
- IAPDC raises concerns about the expansion of detention under the Illegal Migration Bill
- IAPDC raises urgent concerns about the death of a man detained at Manston
- IAPDC research identifies risk factors for premature deaths among detained psychiatric patients
- IAPDC responds to “troubling” increase in self-harm in the prison estate
- IAPDC responds to announcement on prison capacity mitigations
- IAPDC responds to emergency measures to ease prison overcrowding
- IAPDC responds to Government review of investigations following police use of force
- IAPDC responds to HMIP report: A sobering reminder of the state of our prisons
- IAPDC responds to latest prisons deaths data
- IAPDC responds to the King's Speech
- IAPDC responds to the National Partnership Agreement
- IAPDC responds to the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman’s annual report 2022/23
- IAPDC responds to the publication of the rapid review into mental health inpatient safety
- IAPDC seek to recruit new panel member
- IAPDC seeks to recruit new Panel member
- IAPDC seeks to recruit up to four new Panel members
- IAPDC submits evidence on deaths in custody data to UN Special Rapporteur
- IAPDC submits response to Prisons Strategy White Paper
- IMB report is a stark reminder of the risks to the life of those in our closed institutions
- Implement the Independent Sentencing Review now to improve safety, says IAPDC
- Independent investigations into Mental Health Act deaths are essential for transparency, learning and accountability, says IAPDC in new report
- Independent Sentencing Review a crucial step to improving safety, says IAPDC
- Juliet Lyon, former IAPDC Chair, publishes her end of term report
- King’s Speech a missed opportunity to make real progress on custody deaths
- Latest data on deaths under the Mental Health Act must be a catalyst for enhanced patient safety and informed learning
- Latest deaths and self-harm data paint a disturbing picture in our prisons
- Latest prison and police custody deaths data – signs of progress on suicides and natural deaths, but serious concerns remain
- Latest prison and police custody deaths data show more must be done to safeguard lives
- Lynn Emslie appointed as new IAPDC Chair
- More must be done to ensure Prevention of Future Death reports live up to their name, says IAPDC
- National strategy needed to reduce ligature deaths, says IAPDC in new report
- New guidance for policing leaders on preventing deaths
- New IAPDC workplan sets out priorities for preventing deaths in custody
- New IAPDC workplan sets out priorities for preventing deaths in custody
- New IOPC data published
- Peers raise IAPDC’s concerns about risk to life posed by the Illegal Migration Bill
- Police custody deaths data show a worrying upward trend
- Prison healthcare must be improved, finds National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death
- Professor Seena Fazel appointed to IAPDC
- Professor Seena Fazel reappointed to IAPDC
- Raj Desai appointed IAPDC panel member
- Safe - taking the best steps out of lockdown
- The IAPDC responds to the Chief Inspector for Prisons’ annual report
- Two new members appointed to the IAPDC
- Two new panel members appointed to the IAPDC
- Updated guidance for policing leaders on preventing deaths
- Urgent action needed to address “disturbing increase” in prison deaths, says IAPDC Chair
- Urgent action needed to address rising deaths in custody, says IAPDC in new report
- Urgent action needed to reverse worrying trend in prison deaths, says IAPDC
- Wendy Sinclair-Gieben appointed as new IAPDC Chair
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