We recognise the resettlement challenges that women may face when they are held in custody far from their home area. We welcome the efforts to address this for prisoners held on remand. However, it is not clear what wider work is being done to mitigate the effects of geography on resettlement. The Ministry of Justice and HMPPS should set out what work is being done to mitigate the disadvantage some women may face to their resettlement when they are held in custody far from their homes.

We recognise the resettlement challenges that women may face when they are held in custody far from their home area. We welcome the efforts to address this for prisoners held on remand. However, it is not clear what wider work is being done to mitigate the effects of geography on resettlement. The Ministry of Justice and HMPPS should set out what work is being done to mitigate the disadvantage some women may face to their resettlement when they are held in custody far from their homes. Type: recommendation | Number: 42 | Paragraph: 219 | Response status: accepted Government response: We accept this recommendation. As part of the new Resettlement Approach, Probation Practitioners will start to build a relationship with women wherever they are held, through contact prior to release. As part of this approach, all resettlement prisons, including women’s prisons, will have an embedde