New Policy Framework for Women's Prisons promotes women only service

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This framework applies to staff and leaders working with women in prison and with women in contact with probation:
• HMPPS probation services for women (Including CAS1 Approved Premises provided directly or by contract)
• Contracted services for women in the community
• HMPPS public sector prisons, in the women’s estate
• Contracted prisons with female populations

It does not apply to:
• HMPPS run Immigration Removal Centres
• Under 18 Young Offender Institutions
• Prisons in the male estate working with prisoners who identify as women

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COMMUNITY
5.1 Women should be offered the option of a female Probation Practitioner.
5.2 When attending meetings with their Probation Practitioner women should be offered the option of being seen in a women-only environment.
5.3 Women should be offered the option of not being placed in an all-male work environment as part of an Unpaid Work requirement.
5.4 Women should be offered the option of not being placed in an all-male environment when undertaking any group work.

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We aim to provide personalised woman-centred care.
a. We will adopt a gender-specific, trauma-informed (GSTI) and trauma-responsive approach. Many women in the criminal justice system have been victims of much more serious offences than those they are accused of committing, and a majority have experienced trauma in the form of emotional, physical, sexual or domestic abuse. We will make every effort to provide services characterised by the trauma responsive service principles of safety, trustworthiness, choice, collaboration, empowerment and cultural consideration

Complete document https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67644261ff2c870561bde8f3/2024_12_19_Womens_PF.pdf

This is were the failure to define Sex in the EA as being biological, even though they exclude men who identify as women, they have failed to say whether that also includes those with a GRC. Because otherwise, under the current law (pending outcome of FWS Judicial Review) TW with a GRC are "legal women" "for all purposes".

Or does the prison service consider it "proportionate" to invoke the SSE and therefore really do mean that services for biological female prisoners should by provided by bilogical female guards, probation workers etc.?

Am not sure if this is the latest guidance ie pre Labour https://www.gov.uk/government/news/update-on-changes-to-transgender-prisoner-policy-framework

None of these policies work unless they are titled with a very clear legal definition of the word woman.

We aim to provide personalised woman-centred care.
a. We will adopt a gender-specific, trauma-informed (GSTI) and trauma-responsive approach.

What does 'gender-specific' mean?

Yeah, this would be great if the word 'woman' excludes men with special feelings.

So strange that they are prepated to be more explicit, when in another section they directly refer to men "identifying" as women.

Why acknowledge the reality there, but then not in other instances.

Or they could have just prefaced the whole statement to make it clear that in this instance the word woman in referring to prisoners, prison staff or probation officers, means biological females.

This would be a prime example of how their pet get out clause - EA SSE - can be used to provide appropriate women only support.