Consultations

Home Office: PACE Codes C and E 2020 (CLOSED)

Consultation on the revision of PACE codes C (detention) and E (audio recording of suspect interviews) in response to coronavirus.

Closing date: 3rd July 2020
Find out more and read NAAN's response

Previous PACE Code consultations

2017: Read the consultation papers and press release, plus NAAN's response (definition and threshold for vulnerability, voluntary interviews, body worn video)
2016: Read the consultation paper and NAAN's response (in relation to virtual interpreters)
2014: Read NAAN's response
2013: Read the consultation paper and NAAN's response
2012: Read the consultation paper and NAAN's response

HM Inspectorate of Probation: YOS inspection framework (CLOSED)

Consultation on standards for inspecting youth offending services.

NAAN: National Standards 2018 (CLOSED)

Consultation on revised national standards for appropriate adult provision

Closing date: 9th March 2018
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NAAN: National Training Pack (CLOSED)

Consultation on refresh of NAAN national training pack (2016/17)

The revised training pack is now available from the members' section of the website.

College of Policing: Mental Health Authorised Professional Practice (CLOSED)

The College of Policing is the professional body for policing. One of its roles is to develop and publish Authorised Professional Practice (APP) as the official source of professional practice on policing. APP is available for anyone to view online and includes a section on Detention & Custody. The consultation is on a revised mental health module. This module, when published, will wholly replace and decommission the existing ACPO (now NPCC) and Department of Health (2010) guidance on responding to people with mental ill health or learning disabilities.

Closing date: 1 January 2016
Read the consultation paper.
Read NAAN's response.

HM Inspectorate of Constabulary: Inspection Expectations (CLOSED)

Closing date:12.00am 11 December 2015

HM Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP) and HM Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) have been leading a review of the expectations for police custody over the last year. The expectations set out the assessment criteria, or indicators, for joint inspections of police custody and what they expect to see in those areas during the inspection.

They are currently consulting on a revised draft based on the last 6 years of police custody inspections the findings of the recent thematic inspection of the welfare of vulnerable people in police custody.

Read the consultation paper.
Read NAAN's response.

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