Ms Sarahjane McCreery:

On data collection, IPRT launched its annual report, Progress in the Penal System 2021, in February. It focused on transparency in the system, so specifically on data and data collection systems. We propose that the criminal justice system generally should have a system of equality monitoring that is in line with the CSO and that staff and prisoners should be trained. Staff should be trained to recognise why the data is being collected and how to support prisoners in collecting it and prisoners should be trained in how, in the context of their everyday lives in prison, it would benefit them to disclose this kind of data. We also made recommendations on race and ethnicity data.