Consultations
NAAN: National Standards 2018 (CLOSED)
Consultation on revised national standards for appropriate adult provision.
Closing date 9th March 2018
Home Office: PACE Codes (CLOSED)
Statutory consultation on the revision of PACE codes C (detention), H (detention – terrorism), E (audio recording of suspect interviews) and F (visual recording of suspect interviews).
Read the Home Office consultation papers which include: -
- Changes to the definition of vulnerability
- Changes to identification i.e. the threshold at which an appropriate adult is required
- Changes to the description of the role of appropriate adult
- Changes related to voluntary interviews including information about rights and entitlements
- Changes to enable the use of body worn video for voluntary interviews
Read the Home Office press release.
Closing date 6 December 2017.
Previous PACE Code consultations
- Closing date: 17 May 2016: Read the consultation paper and NAAN's response (in relation to virtual interpreters)
- Closing date: April 2014: Read NAAN's response.
- Closing date: 25 September 2013: Read the consultation paper and NAAN's response.
- Closing date: 24 January 2012: Read the consultation paper and NAAN's response.
NAAN: National Training Pack (CLOSED)
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)
Close date: 1 January 2016
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 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.
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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