Jan. 25 2024
Source Page: Safety in custody: quarterly update to September 2023Found: 12 - mon th period In the 12 months to September 2023 , the rate o f self-harm was 805 incidents
Jan. 25 2024
Source Page: Safety in custody: quarterly update to September 2023Found: 12 - mon th period In the 12 months to September 2023 , the rate o f self-harm was 805 incidents
Apr. 25 2024
Source Page: Safety in the Children and Young People Secure Estate: Update to December 2023Found: December 2023 Safety in the Children and Young People Secure Estate statistics cover assaults, self-harm
Apr. 25 2024
Source Page: Safety in the Children and Young People Secure Estate: Update to December 2023Found: December 2023 Safety in the Children and Young People Secure Estate statistics cover assaults, self-harm
Found: prevention strategies that reduce self-harm.
Found: I am a suicide and suicide prevention researcher, with specialism in young people’s self- harm, suicide
Found: There is insufficient evidence for the contagion hypothesis of self-harm.
Asked by: Janet Daby (Labour - Lewisham East)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the HM Chief Inspector of Prisons publication entitled Report on an unannounced inspection of HMYOI Wetherby by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons (20 November – 7 December 2023), published on 5 March 2024, what assessment he has made of the causes of levels of self-harm by female inmates.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
In 2021, the Youth Custody Service and NHS England co-commissioned the Centre for Mental Health to undertake a review into the needs of girls in the children and young people secure estate.
The report found that trauma-related stress is then communicated differently by boys and girls. More often, girls communicated stress through internalising behaviours such as self-harm, and boys through externalising behaviours.
Any girl in the secure estate who is at risk of self-harm will be supported through the Assessment, Care in Custody and Teamwork (ACCT) process, ensuring she has a dedicated case manager, and girls with the most complex needs will receive additional monitoring and more intensive case management.
Asked by: Janet Daby (Labour - Lewisham East)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to HM Chief Inspector of Prisons' publication entitled Report on an unannounced inspection of HMYOI Wetherby (20 November - 7 December 2023), published on 5 March 2024, what steps he is taking to reduce rates of self-harm at HMYOI Wetherby.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The Youth Custody Service (YCS) will review the support available to all those placed at HMYOI Wetherby, ensuring that the placement of any child in the secure estate is needs-led, and is in the child’s best interests. It will also develop gender-specific guidance on the care of girls in the establishment.
All residents at HMYOI Wetherby will be allocated an appropriate Custody Support Plan Officer, and will receive support sessions following any significant events.
Any child who is at risk of self-harm will be supported through the Assessment, Care in Custody and Teamwork (ACCT) process, ensuring that he or she has a dedicated case manager; and those with the most complex needs will receive additional monitoring and more intensive case management. The weekly Safety Intervention Meeting will discuss any acts of self-harm, or violence, and appropriate actions to support the children concerned will be included in the safety action plan.
Found: Evidence: 1.1 I am a historian of self -harm, attempted suicide and suicide in modern Britain, and