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Young Offender Institutions: Drugs

Volume 482: debated on Tuesday 4 November 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what rehabilitation programmes are available for drug users in young offender institutions. (232187)

The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) has in place a comprehensive drug treatment framework, based on the National Treatment Agency's revised models of care, to address the different needs of drug-misusers in prisons and young offenders institutions (YOIs). The interventions available are designed to meet the needs of low, moderate and severe drug misusers—irrespective of age, gender or ethnicity.

The interventions available include:

Clinical services (detoxification and/or maintenance prescribing);

CARATs (Counselling, Assessment, Referral, Advice and Throughcare services)—CARATs are available in all YOIs in England and Wales;

Drug rehabilitation programmes—young adult offenders in the estate have access to the following programmes:

Short Duration Programme

P-ASRO (prisons Addressing Substance Related Offending)

Therapeutic Communities (young females in 1 establishment)

Young People's Substance Misuse Service (YPSMS)—a non-clinical service for those under the age of 18 in custody in England and Wales, combining education and prevention with treatment.

Prison drug treatment funding has increased year on year since 1996-97—up 1,179 per cent., with record numbers engaging in treatment.