Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to Part One of the National Disability Strategy published 28 July 2021, what steps his Department has taken to progress the development of a national neurodiversity training toolkit for staff to be rolled out in 2022.

The Ministry of Justice is working with Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service to rollout base level training (‘Neurodiversity Training Toolkit’) on how to support neurodivergent people within our care to all frontline staff by the end of the year.

We are also currently testing a new Neurodiversity Support Manager role in some prisons, who will be responsible for liaising with education and skills teams and ensuring that departments across the prison are aware of prisoners’ individual needs.