Wayland independent review of progress 2023
Report for Wayland Prison
Summary
we found a prison characterised by staff shortfalls, a lack of activity and poor behaviour management. Outcomes had deteriorated in our tests of purposeful activity and rehabilitation and release planning and remained not sufficiently good in safety. 1.2 Our previous inspections of HMP Wayland in 2017 and 2022 recorded the following assessments of outcomes for prisoners. Figure 1: HMP Wayland healthy prison outcomes in 2017 and 2022 Good Reasonably good Not sufficiently good Poor Safety Respect Purposeful activity Rehabilitation and release planning 2017 2022 1.3 At this independent review of progress we were pleased to find evidence of tangible progress against nearly all the priorities we identified previously. A new governor had recently taken up post and was leading considerable improvements, building on the foundations established by his predecessor. He had set several priorities for Wayland, the first of which was to improve the recruitment and retention of staff.