Update 3| April 2015

A North Wales Prison Project Team has been set up, led by the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, to look at how

health care and wellbeing services will be provided within the North Wales Prison.

A briefing session was held at the end of November for lead managers and clinicians who will be supporting the devel-

opment of the health care services. This gave health staff a chance to:

gain a shared understanding of the development of the new prison and its function;

hear about the wider context within which health, wellbeing and social care is delivered to

prisoners in Wales;

consider what it means to deliver health, wellbeing and social care in a prison as an integrated

approach to a prisoner’s rehabilitation and resettlement; and

find out about work underway and next steps.

Colleagues from The National Offender Management Services (NOMS) and Welsh Government presented at the event

which was successful in engaging relevant members of staff in the project.

The project team are available to answer any queries you may have in relation to Health and Wellbeing within the

North Wales Prison. Please don’t hesitate to contact Hannah Beer, hannah.beer@wales.nhs.uk if you require any fur-

ther information.

Or alternatively you can contact the Ministry of Justice

at: general.queries@justice.gsi.gov.uk or

Lend Lease at: northwalesprison@lendlease.com or

#NorthWalesPrison

Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board sets up a North Wales Prison Project Team

If you have further questions about the project, you can e:mail us

direct at: questions@wrexham.gov.uk

Or visit our website at: http://www.wrexham.gov.uk/english/

business/prison/

CONTACT US

Wrexham County Borough Council gives evidence at Inquiry on

Prisons in Wales and the Treatment of Welsh Offenders

Over the past few months, Parliament’s Welsh Affairs

Committee has been hearing evidence from several witness

on the subject of Prisons in Wales and the Treatment of

Welsh Offenders in the Prison Estate. Strategic Director, Lee

Robinson and Cllr Hugh Jones from Wrexham County Borough

Council gave evidence in January. Other witnesses include:

the Welsh Language Commissioner, Chief Inspector of

Prisons, Prison Reform Trust and Wales Governance Centre.

The final session of the inquiry saw the Committee question

Andrew Selous MP, Minister for Prisons, Probation and

Rehabilitation, and Sarah Payne, Director, National

Offender Management Service in Wales on how Welsh

offenders are currently treated in prison and plans for the

future of the prison service in Wales, including the North

Wales Prison.

To view the evidence given at the inquiry please click on

the link below: http://www.parliament.uk/business/

committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/welsh-affairs-

committee/news/prisons-in-wales-ev5/

ECONOMIC IMPACT TO

DATE:

ALREADY £1.213MILLION HAS BEEN AWARDED TO LOCAL

BUSINESSES

WELCOME TO THE SECOND

EDITION OF THE NORTH

WALES PRISON REGIONAL

NEWSLETTER

Design proposal

Update 2| April 2015 North Wales Prison - Project News

Since our last edition, the

North Wales Prison Project

has continued to move at

quite a pace with significant

key milestones being

achieved. This edition will

bring you up to date on this

key strategic project for

North Wales. Items within

this issue are:

Operator

Announcement

Employment &

Skills Committee

Employment &

Skills Symposium

Prison Build

Update

Expression of

Interest Form for

Jobs &

Apprenticeships

Welsh Affairs

Committee Inquiry

on Prisons in Wales

Betsi Cadwaladr

University Health

Board Update

On 24 February, it was announced that the prison, which will open in 2017, will be run by an

innovative new approach that will see the best public, voluntary and private sectors working

together. HMPS will take overall ownership of the prison but with 34% of service provision

outsourced—including the large industrial workshop complex.

Prisons Minister Andrew Selous said:

“I am pleased to announce that the new prison in North Wales will be operated by Her

Majesty’s Prison Service as part of an innovative new approach to running prisons.

Our combination of benchmarking and outsourcing services is saving taxpayers around £400

million a year and not it will allow us to deliver a truly efficient prison in Wrexham that is

based on best practice from the opening of previous prisons.

This prison reflects the true success of our reforms in helping to create a modern low-cost

prison estate, and is proving a real boost to the North Wales Economy with over £1.1 million

already committed to local companies well ahead of the 250,000 target for 2014”.

Councillor Hugh Jones—WCBC Lead Member for Communities, Partnership & Collaboration

“We look forward to working with Her Majesty’s Prison Service in conjunction with our

partners to ensure that the North Wales Prison delivers positive benefits to the local

economy and effective rehabilitation of offenders. To date the construction work has

contributed at least £1.1 m to the local economy and over 80% of the jobs are local. We

are working with partner agencies to ensure that North Wales Prison makes a very real

contribution to the reduction in re-offending by providing support to the prisoners during

and after their sentence.”

Prisons Minister, Andrew Selous, has announced that the new prison

in Wrexham will be operated by Her Majesty’s Prison Service (HMPS)

NORTH WALES PRISON OPERATOR ANNOUNCED

STOP PRESS—THURSDAY 26 MARCH 2015—The Ministry of Justice signs the main

construction contract with Lend Lease for the North Wales Prison

REGIONAL UPDATE

Alun Cains, Parilamentary under Secretary of State for Wales, and Sarah

Payne, Director of the National Offender Management Service in Wales

visit the North Wales Prison site on Wrexham Industrial Estate to see

how work is progressing prior to attending the Symposium at Glyndwyr

University.

WELSH MINISTER VISITS

NORTH WALES PRISON SITE

An Employment, Skills & Engagement Committee has been

formed by Lend Lease to look at ways to maximize Lend

Lease’s Local Commitments—around jobs, work placements

and apprenticeships — for North Wales in this phase.

Representatives from the Ministry of Justice (MOJ),

National Offender Management Services (NOMS), Lend

Lease, Wrexham County Borough Council and the North

Wales Economic Ambition Board make up this Committee.

One of the first tasks of the new Committee was to plan

and deliver the Employment & Skills Symposium that took

place in January (see next page).

REGION TAKES A ROLE ON LEND

LEASE’S NORTH WALES PRISON

EMPLOYMENT & SKILLS COMMITTEE

Prison Build Update

Lend Lease has continued with the early works on site

on this £212 million construction project and local

businesses have been successful in securing some of these

early packages. The secure perimeter fencing is currently

being erected and will be complete by the end of April

2015, together with the foundations for the first house

block, the car park and the support building. The planting

of the trees along Bridge Road took place in January 2015

and 2,106 daffodils were also planted before Christmas.

Follow the link below for Opportunities to become part of

Lend Lease supply chain

http://www.sell2wales.gov.uk/news/news_article.aspx?

JOBS AND APPRENTICESHIP

EXPRESSION OF INTEREST

FORM AVAILABLE

An EOI form is now available for people

interested in working on the North Wales Prison

project during the construction phase.

The forms can be accessed on Wrexham County

Borough Council’s website or by e:mailing:

northwalesprison@lendlease.com or

questions@wrexham.gov.uk

PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS NOT A JOB

APPLICATION FORM; THERE WILL BE A

SEPARATE APPLICATION FORM FOR PEOPLE

INTERESTED IN WORKING IN THE PRISON

NEARER TO ITS OPENING

Speakers at the Symposium from the left are:

Rita Patel-Miller, Lend Lease Community & Training Manager; Simon Caron, Lend Lease Programme Director; Sarah

Payne, Director of NOMS in Wales; Alun Cairns, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Wales; Iwan Trefor-Jones,

North Wales Economic Ambition Board; Neil Caves, MoJ New Prison Programme Manager; Iwan Thomas, North Wales

Economic Ambition Board.

STRONG ATTENDANCE BY NORTH WALES STAKEHOLDERS

AT THE EMPLOYMENT & SKILLS SYMPOSIUM HELD AT

GLYNDWR UNIVERSITY IN JANUARY

The Employment & Skills

Symposium was held at Glyndwr

University on 30 January 2015.

This prestigious event welcomed

approx. 100 delegates. It brought

together key stakeholders

from across North Wales and sur-

rounding regions, including Local

Authorities, Welsh Government,

and work and education providers

such as Careers Wales, Job Centre Plus and DWP. The aim

was to explore ways of delivering the local commitments

relating to apprenticeships, work placements and local

employment in a co-ordinated and accessible way. Alun

Cairns, Parliamentary Under Secretary of state for Wales in his

opening address said:

“Wrexham prison provides

an excellent opportunity to

generate jobs and growth in

North Wales. Already £1.1

million has been assigned to

local businesses with over 80%

of those employed on site from

the local area. The North Wales

economy is already feeling the

benefit and I am confident that through our ambitious

plans, it will continue to do so over the coming months

and years. Sarah Payne, Director of NOMS in Wales,

stated that her ambition was for the North Wales

Prison to be a flagship prison for other prisons in

England and Wales.

Director of NOMS in Wales announced at the event “The North Wales Prison will be an exemplar Flagship Project”