Policy background
Approved Premises exist to ensure that bailees and offenders with the highest risk and most complex needs receive additional residential supervision in the community and additional rehabilitative support following release from custody. As part of ensuring Approved Premises are drug-free and safe, residents are presently (prior to the implementation of this Act) drug tested if requested by staff. Such drug testing is provided for in the "house rules" of the Approved Premises which each resident is required to accept as a condition of their residence. Those house rules are made in accordance with Regulation 6 of the Offender Management Act 2007 (Approved Premises) Regulations 2014 (the 2014 Regulations).