What is the Incentives and Earned Privileges Scheme (IEPS)?

[fdunnington]

Is anyone with legal knowledge able to clarify what the basic level of prison privileges are that all prisoners must have by law? I've not been able to find a definitive list of these.

[jarvisryan]

Hey @fdunnington I think the Prison Service refer to it as the Incentives Policy Framework Now. Please see below some information I managed to find on the intranet.

The Incentives Policy Framework, together with other key policies, such as Adjudications, and for Young Offender Institutions (YOIs), the Building Bridges Policy Framework, allow Governors to incentivise good behaviour and tackle poor behaviour and breaches of the Prison Rules and YOI Rules, helping prisoners to make the right choices to prepare them to lead crime-free lives when they leave prison.

The Incentives Policy Framework provides a system of privileges, which is a key tool for incentivising prisoners to abide by the rules and engage in the prison regime and rehabilitation, including education, work and substance misuse interventions – whilst allowing privileges to be taken away from those who behave poorly or refuse to engage. This policy sets a common framework with which local incentives policies must comply.

incentives-policy-framework.pdf

[jarvisryan]

Building Bridges: A Positive Behaviour Framework for the Children and Young People Secure Estate

This Policy Framework sets out the regulations and guidance for developing positive relationships and cultures across the Children and Young People Secure Estate. It includes incentivising and promoting positive behaviour, minimising behaviour that can cause harm and working effectively with unacceptable behaviour to provide a safe and controlled environment for children, young people and staff.

The Framework currently applies to England only. It replaces related sections of PSI 08-2012 Care and Management of Young People, which remains active in Wales.

building-bridges-positive-behaviour-pf.pdf

[fdunnington]

Thanks Ryan :)

I left it as IEPS just because that’s what it’s named on gov.uk, although I did see in a couple of places that it was known as something else now. I’d understood that it was still formally the IEPS, and the details were set out in the framework, but I can change it to the Incentives Policy Framework instead if that’s what it’s more widely known as.

I have all the info on the Framework, but just haven’t been able to find a definitive list of what the basic privileges protected by law are, although they’re referred too quite frequently. Do you know anyone who would be able to give adequate list of what these are? I know that it includes a certain number of visits/access to a certain amount of money, but I don’t know what else is on the list (if anything).

[jarvisryan]

Hey @fdunnington

The minimum that should be provided to all those in custody is detailed on p23 of the Framework under the heading National Facilities List. (Only those detailed in Part 1 are considered as a minimum). Any info relating to the use of tobacco is no longer relevant as smoking is banned across the prison estate now. There are also local facility lists, whereby each individual prison may allowed some of all of the additional allowed items from Part 2 of the list. This usually depends on the category of the prison, the current population within a prison and/or any security concerns etc.

Hope this helps but please reach out if you were looking for something different.