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<p>The Home Office and its service providers comply with all relevant employment <br>legislation.
The service provider for Yarl's Wood immigration removal centre, <br>Serco, is required
under their contract to employ sufficient female officers to <br>enable appropriate
searching and security arrangements for female detainees. <br>Yarl's Wood IRC has
52% male detainee custody officers and 48% female. <br><br>Assessment Care in Detention
and Teamwork (ACDT) is the system used for <br>monitoring individuals considered to
be at risk of self harm and operates <br>within the broader context of decency, safety,
and the concept of a healthy <br>centre. <br><br>ACDT requires centre managers to
appoint trained assessors and named case <br>managers in order to provide individualised
care to detainees based on their <br>particular needs. A female assessor or case manager
should be appointed where <br>it is appropriate but that is not a requirement. <br><br>Feminine
hygiene items are freely available to residents. Access to these is <br>not monitored
by staff.</p><p> </p>
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