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<table><tbody><tr><td><p>The Government takes very seriously its responsibility to
keep prisoners safe, and we are committed to reducing the number of self-inflicted
deaths and the incidence of self-harm across the estate. This is why we have established
a prison safety programme through which we are taking forward a comprehensive set
of actions to improve safety in custody. They include:<ul><li>investing in over 4,300
additional staff in order to deliver consistent, purposeful regimes;</li><li>improving
staff knowledge and understanding of the factors known to increase risk of self-harm,
to help them to identify and respond appropriately to prisoners at risk. Our revised
introduction to suicide and self-harm prevention training has already reached over
24,000 staff;</li><li>improving the flow, quality and use of risk information about
people coming into our prisons, to support effective decision-making about risk;</li><li>producing
an early days toolkit to help staff enhance the support that they provide for prisoners
during the first few days and weeks in custody;</li><li>renewing our partnership with
Samaritans by confirming a further three years’ funding for their valuable Listeners
Scheme, and working with them to share learning from the ‘Coping with Life in Prisons’
project, a successful pilot initiative in which Samaritans-trained ex-prisoners delivered
emotional resilience training to groups of newly-arrived prisoners; and</li><li>improving
the multi-disciplinary ACCT case management process for those identified as at risk
of self-harm or suicide.</li></ul></p></td></tr></tbody></table>
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