Update 3| April 2015
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.
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gain a shared understanding of the development of the new prison and its function;
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hear about the wider context within which health, wellbeing and social care is delivered to
prisoners in Wales;
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ALREADY
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, [email protected] if you require any further information.
CONTACT US
If you have further questions about the project, you can e:mail us
direct at: [email protected]
Or alternatively you can contact the Ministry of Justice
at: [email protected] or
Or visit our website at: http://www.wrexham.gov.uk/english/
business/prison/
Lend Lease at: [email protected] or
#NorthWalesPrison
£1.213MILLION
HAS BEEN AWARDED TO LOCAL
BUSINESSES
Design proposal
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board sets up a North Wales Prison Project Team
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ECONOMIC IMPACT TO
DATE:
WELCOME TO THE SECOND
EDITION OF THE NORTH
WALES PRISON REGIONAL
NEWSLETTER
To view the evidence given at the inquiry please click on
the link below: http://www.parliament.uk/business/
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 development of the health care services. This gave health staff a chance to:
Update 2| April 2015
North Wales Prison - Project News
REGIONAL UPDATE
NORTH WALES PRISON OPERATOR ANNOUNCED
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:
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Operator
Announcement
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Employment &
Skills Committee
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Employment &
Skills Symposium
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Prison Build
Update

Expression of
Interest Form for
Jobs &
Apprenticeships
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Welsh Affairs
Committee Inquiry
on Prisons in Wales
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Betsi Cadwaladr
University Health
Board Update
Prisons Minister, Andrew Selous, has announced that the new prison
in Wrexham will be operated by Her Majesty’s Prison Service (HMPS)
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.”
STOP PRESS—THURSDAY 26 MARCH 2015—The Ministry of Justice signs the main
construction contract with Lend Lease for the North Wales Prison
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
STRONG ATTENDANCE BY NORTH WALES STAKEHOLDERS
AT THE EMPLOYMENT & SKILLS SYMPOSIUM HELD AT
GLYNDWR UNIVERSITY IN JANUARY
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).
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?
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.
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:
[email protected] or
[email protected]
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
WELSH MINISTER VISITS
NORTH WALES PRISON SITE
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.
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 surrounding 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”