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Giving As to everyone to encourage them is fine, but it does not produce a judgment. It is a form of exhortation—it is what the team coach does at the beginning of a football match or something similar.
In fact, the British Education Research Association recently produced a publication on baseline assessments in which it made the point that it is not a robust approach.
The Audit Scotland report that was produced a wee while ago contains much the best explanation that I have seen of how all those moving parts, which are part of the system, fit together.
The big challenge for society and the NHS is how to keep people healthy. I do not like the word “co-produce”, but we need to ask how we can encourage people to take exercise, and we have done a lot to promote exercise.
I am simply reflecting the fact that, as in the general population, some of the poor health that prisoners have is produced over lifetimes by the environments from which they have come.
That should not take a plan or a strategy, but if there are specific pitfalls, I would be more than happy to support action. I will also meet the NAS quite soon to discuss the same thing.