Prison Officer Training: Women’s Mental Health

Part of Women and Equalities – in the House of Commons at on 11 July 2019.

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Photo of Robert Buckland Robert Buckland The Minister of State, Ministry of Justice

I am grateful to the hon. Lady for raising that important point. As I have said, the roll out of the new POWER scheme is going to be very important in terms of giving prison officers the tools they need to help support women with mental health needs. I do think that our overall strategy is now translating into real change, with the key worker scheme allowing prison officers to work with individual prisoners to identify their needs, so there is progress, but I accept that much more needs to be done.