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Business Plan 2025-26

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Business plan 2025-26 (PDF, 274.4 KB)

This business plan describes our planned work for the coming year under our strategic objectives. The plan sets out HM Inspectorate of Prisons’ mandate and values.

These continue to be very challenging times for all those living and working in prisons. We meet many outstanding leaders and frontline staff in the course of our work, and I remain very grateful for their professionalism in engaging with the inspectorate despite the pressures they are facing.

Independent inspection is even more important when times are difficult, and our first priority is to deliver a programme which both enables public scrutiny of the hidden world of detention and helps to drive improvement, by providing establishments with clear priorities for improvement.
Charlie Taylor, Chief Inspector of Prisons