New Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) Annual Report and Action Plan
His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) published its latest IPP Annual Report and Action Plan on 9 July 2026. These show the work to help IPP prisoners progress towards a safe release, and for those in the community towards the end of their licence.
What has been achieved?
The new Action Plan continues to support delivery of key services, including:
• continuing the IPP Approved Premises Pilot;
• testing a new IPP advocate role to provide more support to IPP prisoners;
• extra funding for Psychology Services, giving more prisoners experiencing barriers to progression access to specialist assessments;
• the Phoenix Unit at HMP Aylesbury, which is due to open later this summer to support IPP prisoners who are not making necessary progress;
• expanding Release on Temporary Licence (ROTL) opportunities to all four progression regime prisons: HMPs Humber, Warren Hill, Erlestoke and Buckley Hall; and
• improving recall processes to make decision-making clearer and more consistent.
New targets for 2026/27:
The refreshed action plan includes six targets to improve IPP progression:
Target 1 – To ensure that being in the wrong prison does not become a barrier to progression.
• 95% of IPP prisoners to be located in a prison that meets their current needs by December 2026.
Target 2 – To reduce unnecessary delays to parole hearings.
• 90% of parole reports (PAROM1) to be completed and submitted on time.
Target 3 – To help IPP licences end sooner, where safe to do so.
• 100% of eligible offenders to be referred for licence termination when they become eligible.
Target 4 – To help target risk or engagement needs of Detention for Public Protection (DPP) prisoners and address barriers to progression.
• 100% of DPP prisoners to have their case reviewed by HMPPS Psychology Services every three month.
Target 5 – To ensure that suitable cases can be considered for re-release as quickly as possible.
• All eligible recall cases to receive a Risk Assessed Recall Review (RARR) decision within six weeks of the required information being received.
Target 6 – To provide additional support and oversight for those facing the greatest barriers to progression.
• 100% of red-rated prisoners to receive a progression panel between 1 April 2026 and 31 March 2027.
Want to know more?
Copies of the Annual Report and Action Plan are available on request.
If you are serving an IPP sentence and have questions about what this means for you, please speak to your Prison Offender Manager (POM).
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I humbly find it difficult to believe, that these are a group of super-malefactors held back by their psychology.
The message seems to come across that this population, – which was arguably arbitrarily selected in the first place, – is in fact uniquely in need of special psychological management. It cannot be it seems, that their “way-overtime” was unjustified and needless : no, they are a special class of super-malefactors.