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Prisoners: Self-harm

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The National Offender Management Service has a broad, integrated and evidence-based prisoner suicide prevention and self harm management strategy that seeks to reduce the distress of all those in prison. This encompasses a wide spectrum of prison and Department of Health work around such issues as mental health, substance misuse and resettlement. Any prisoner identified as at risk of suicide or self-harm is cared for using the Assessment, Care in Custody and Teamwork (ACCT) procedures. Most self harm is not directly life threatening, but nevertheless can be extremely distressing for those who have to deal with it. A prisoner focused care planning system for those at risk, ACCT, (Assessment, Care in Custody and Teamwork), has helped prisons manage self harm. There are no easy answers to managing self harming behaviour but we remain committed to finding ways to improve further our management of it.The information is set out as follows. The NOMS Incident Reporting System processes high volumes of data which are constantly being updated. The figures provide a good indication of overall numbers of incidents but should not be interpreted as absolute.The instances of recorded self-harm by male prisoners, including young offenders (YOs) aged under-21, is summarised in table 1. Those incidents in current single-function young offender institutions (YOIs) are detailed in the notes of table 2.

Table 1: Self harm incidents by establishment (male)
Prison	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Belmarsh	75	123	90	76	88	83
Manchester	284	208	219	200	206	153
Woodhill	28	40	121	128	176	165
Albany	51	73	25	6	¹—	¹—
Dovegate	151	79	126	197	150	126
Garth	12	51	51	51	43	58
Gartree	9	1	5	12	43	19
Grendon/Spring Hill	10	2	¹—	1	1	3
Kingston	¹—	6	12	10	14	6
Lowdham Grange	4	16	15	29	40	70
Maidstone	9	11	20	10	15	13
Parkhurst	170	139	82	158	79	¹—
Rye Hill	32	68	139	50	71	72
Swaleside	11	18	8	26	83	59
Acklington	20	40	75	97	45	112
Blundeston	17	19	11	16	14	17
Buckley Hall	¹—	¹—	¹—	43	23	24
Bullwood Hall	¹—	¹—	¹—	15	6	7
Edmunds Hill	¹—	¹—	11	17	22	21
Kennet	¹—	¹—	¹—	¹—	1	2
Wolds	10	6	6	16	19	19
Ashwell	¹—	6	9	¹—	14	9
Camp Hill	58	22	28	15	20	¹—
Channings Wood	9	6	18	44	23	34
Coldingley	¹—	¹—	¹—	1	3	2
Dartmoor	23	21	33	52	36	29
Erlestoke	3	¹—	4	5	18	45
Everthorpe	1	¹—	7	21	42	42
Featherstone	32	18	11	27	33	41
Guys Marsh	32	16	6	30	60	64
Haverigg	4	3	11	5	35	44
Highpoint	41	33	30	67	60	114
Lancaster	¹—	¹—	4	6	7	¹—
Littlehey	46	108	123	158	105	78
Moorland	104	1	3	8	12	11
Mount	5	6	24	22	28	20
Ranby	8	4	8	27	39	68
Risley	18	20	45	36	33	32
Shepton Mallet	1	2	¹—	1	2	1
Stafford	39	61	82	66	97	71
Stocken	26	11	35	25	37	¹—
Usk\Prescoed	¹—	¹—	1	¹—	3	2
Verne	9	3	7	4	¹—	3
Wayland	9	24	42	55	32	59
Wealstun	14	9	34	30	34	35
Weare	18	23	8	¹—	¹—	¹—
Wellingborough	19	14	2	27	18	49
Whatton	1	4	¹—	2	17	31
Wymott	¹—	4	47	61	63	59
Low Newton	6	¹—	¹—	¹—	¹—	¹—
Frankland	31	95	165	217	339	429
Full Sutton	49	53	133	56	55	76
Long Lartin	2	4	11	11	89	127
Wakefield	44	85	126	176	114	93
Whitemoor	60	75	136	122	80	37
Dover	41	39	34	55	41	43
Haslar	4	3	2	4	2	7
Lindholme	9	7	18	36	57	59
Altcourse	165	160	111	219	210	245
Bedford	116	114	107	146	157	132
Birmingham	83	81	207	604	528	447
Blakenhurst	430	316	151	177	211	64
Bristol	95	156	185	102	147	147
Brixton	67	68	85	19	33	27
Bullingdon	18	21	39	25	69	112
Canterbury	2	12	10	10	5	15
Cardiff	54	99	73	96	25	14
Chelmsford	29	61	96	136	131	111
Doncaster	317	369	336	276	268	405
Dorchester	27	36	25	48	53	67
Durham	201	165	268	220	206	193
Elmley	22	82	139	92	96	102
Exeter	31	65	107	84	56	117
Forest Bank	214	257	197	333	317	257
Gloucester	97	83	110	83	88	95
Hewell Cluster	¹—	¹—	¹—	¹—	¹—	83
High Down	54	187	117	205	154	136
Holme House	40	74	63	102	81	78
Hull	143	176	199	110	107	115
Leeds	310	388	223	148	147	92
Leicester	122	143	136	170	153	84
Lewes	128	182	134	123	78	120
Lincoln	113	160	134	165	215	182
Liverpool	370	331	270	178	131	243
Norwich	213	264	234	338	204	202
Nottingham	174	136	91	160	194	210
Parc	327	235	314	250	152	229
Pentonville	159	72	204	243	169	179
Preston	41	36	105	222	239	223
Shrewsbury	36	67	59	57	81	51
Swansea	45	28	61	57	34	82
Wandsworth	54	194	55	61	141	117
Winchester	171	210	149	136	52	104
Wormwood Scrubs	57	124	50	128	119	123
Onley	194	87	88	102	157	146
Swinfen Hall	26	74	51	81	124	127
Hollesley Bay	5	¹—	¹—	2	1	6
Moorland Open (Hatfield)	¹—	¹—	¹—	¹—	¹—	1
Ford	5	6	¹—	5	3	¹—
Kirkham	1	1	¹—	2	¹—	1
Leyhill	¹—	1	2	5	4	3
North Sea Camp	1	¹—	1	¹—	1	2
Standford Hill	1	¹—	2	¹—	¹—	1
Sudbury	¹—	¹—	¹—	1	¹—	¹—
Peterborough	¹—	¹—	121	199	200	273
Latchmere House	¹—	¹—	¹—	¹—	1	¹—
Brinsford	66	23	71	102	83	85
Castington	87	83	92	104	64	62
Feltham	100	159	141	126	219	203
Hindley	77	36	160	71	41	81
Lancaster Farms	23.	15	92	153	21	5
Stoke Heath	75	230	192	217	226	321
Rochester	9	52	15	46	47	84
Northallerton	27	59	14	35	30	27
Aylesbury	18	14	113	307	201	210
Deerbolt	68	59	100	106	86	122
Glen Parva	197	217	232	148	247	231
Portland	55	115	109	160	170	76
Reading	21	24	52	37	34	23
Ashfield	236	217	165	209	130	92
Cookham Wood	¹—	¹—	¹—	¹—	¹—	9
Warren Hill	8	20	13	15	12	75
Huntercombe	28	36	64	61	79	79
Werrington	2	10	25	20	11	52
Wetherby	¹—	¹—	59	34	10	23
Thorn Cross	1	3	1	2	3	¹—

Table two details the instances of recorded self-harm by females, including young offenders (YOs) aged under-21. Female YOs are not held in stand-alone female YOIs. Rather they are held within the adult female prison population.

Table 2: Self harm incidents by establishment (female)
Prison	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Askham Grange	1	¹—	¹—	¹—	¹—	¹—
Brockhill*	623	475	261	219	¹—	¹—
Bronzefield	¹—	205	827	1,165	1,744	1,517
Buckley Hall*	758	1,079	596	¹—	¹—	¹—
Bullwood Hall*	282	1,008	1,418	227	¹—	¹—
Cookham Wood*	72	162	197	126	182	¹—
Downview	130	70	258	233	21	8
Drake Hall	8	7	28	17	41	42
Durham*	282	231	54	¹—	¹—	¹—
Eastwood Park	683	1,139	2,441	2,074	1,965	2,584
Edmunds Hill*	156	209	¹—	¹—	¹—	¹—
Foston Hall	24	120	616	608	1,160	919
Holloway	957	1,179	1,396	1,470	1,099	1,829
Low Newton	373	719	1,118	736	970	829
Morton Hall	60	19	29	67	50	77
New Hall	1,588	1,116	1,053	1,261	1,193	1,082
Peterborough	—	—	800	1,126	1,041	1,337
Send	54	75	97	177	158	233
Styal	368	1,050	1,388	1,574	1,235	2,103
Winchester*	18	8	¹—	¹—	¹—	¹—
¹ Indicates that there have either been no self harm incidents in that period or that the data are not available or applicable for that period (for example, if the prison has been using a different reporting system or has re-roled). Those prisons affected by re-roling are listed in the following table.
Notes:
1. Figures refer to total numbers of self harm incidents and not numbers of individual prisoners.
2. Self harm incidents are as reported on the NOMS Incident Reporting System. Figures exclude recent numbers for C-NOMIS sites Albany, Camp Hill and Parkhurst.
3. Self harm risk is unevenly distributed around the prison estate and changes over time. The following list contains the major changes such as prisons opening, closing and re-rolling etc. which affect self harm figures. These need to be taken into account when interpreting changes from one year to the next.

	Prison	Change
2008	Blakenhurst	Merged to form HMP Hewell
2008	Hewell Grange	Merged to form HMP Hewell
2008	Brockhill	Merged to form HMP Hewell
2008	Cookham Wood	Female to under 18 Male
2007	Kennet	First opened
2006	Brockhill	Female to Male
2006	Bulwood Hall	Female to Male
2005	Peterborough	First opened
2005	Durham	Female wing closed
2005	Onley	YOI to YOI+Cat C
2005	Swinfen Hall	YOI to YOI+Cat C
2005	Weare	Closed
2005	Buckley Hall	Female to Male
2005	Edmunds Hill	Female to Male
2004	Winchester	Female wing closed
2004	Bronzefield	First opened
2003	Edmunds Hill	First opened

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

490 c1022-8W;490 c1018-24W; 264771

Session

2008-09

Subjects

Prisoners Self-harm

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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