Building on success: a three year strategy

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Building on success a three year strategy

• London CJB Strategy 2008/9 to 2010/11

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London CJB is going from strength to strength
Performance is improving
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London is also helping to shape the national
agenda
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London CJB is going from strength to strength
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We will build on progress to date and are
responding to the new national agenda
We will continue to deliver against the core
targets and strategies set for Local Criminal
Justice Boards
We have designed a cross cutting programme
that delivers end-to-end reform.
We are developing approaches to respond to the
wider PSA regime
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We are on track to deliver a simpler and faster
service
PSA
We will deliver across London
What success looks like

Effectiveness and efficiency
PSA 24 Target 1- increase the efficiency and
effectiveness of the CJS in bringing offences to
justice

• DGSP
• IPT
• Virtual Courts
• CJSSS Youth
• Exchange Links
• Bichard R7
• PROGRESS

• Strengthened and more efficient business
  processes
• Increased productivity
• A faster process
• Efficiencies benefits for re-investment

We have already delivered
We will develop

• DGSP (pilots)
• IPT (pilots)
• Virtual Court (prototype)
• CJSSS
• Conditional Cautioning

• A streamlined traffic process
• A joined-up estates strategy
• A comprehensive enforcement programme

Descriptions of the projects to be delivered and
developed are at annex A
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We are promoting public confidence and community
engagement
PSA
We will deliver
What success looks like
Confidence and engagement

PSA 24 2 - Increase confidence 3 Increase
victim witnesses satisfaction 4 - Better
identify explain race disproportionality

• Minimum Data Set
• Witness Charter
• Witness intermediaries project
• Community engagement pilot in Westminster

• Increased public confidence in the CJS
• Improved victim and witness satisfaction
• Increased public understanding of the CJS
• A CJS which responds to public needs

We have already delivered
We will develop

• Community Justice pilots
• Staff engagement activity
• A strengthened Advisory Group, recruited
  publicly
• A strengthened Equalities Board
• A coherent CJS voice

• Whole system approach to community engagement
• Increased staff engagement
• Integrate community justice principles in our
  youth strategy

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We will have an increased focus on serious and
violent offending
PSA
We will deliver
What success looks like
Serious and violent offending

PSA 23 1 Reduce the most serious violence,
including tackling serious sexual offences and
domestic violence

• Support for Boroughs to improve Domestic
  Violence response
• A youth pilot to test a new risk assessment
  framework a safer court environment and greater
  youth engagement

• A more co-ordinated and effective response to
  serious and violent offending
• A reduction in the number of first time entrants
  to the youth justice system

CJSSS
We have already
We will develop

• Developed a Youth strategy
• Developed a Domestic Violence approach
• Conducted an end-to-end review of rape cases

• Co-ordinated CJS response to hate crime
• A protocol to ensure a more effective response
  to Serious Violent Offenders
• A CJB approach to public protection

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We will develop an innovative approach to
reducing recidivism
PSA
We will deliver
What success looks like
Reducing re-offending

PSA 23 4 Reduce re-offending through the
improved management of offenders PSA
25 Drugs Alcohol PSA 16 Social
Exclusion

• A major programme to direct resource where it is
  most needed in the community , working with Local
  Authorities

• A reduction in re-offending
• An evidence base on innovative approaches to
  reducing re-offending

We have already
We will develop
Identified the links between London Resettlement
Board and LCJB

• More meaningful and outcome focused
  relationships between CJS and Local government

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Our plan covers three years of activity

• Our approach to planning seeks to ensure
• Logical sequencing
• Ensuring that projects fit together in a logical
  sequence that seeks to avoid duplication and
  supports sequential change
• Assessment of local capacity and avoidance of
  overlap
• Recognition that projects need to be delivered
  with sufficient space in between them to allow
  local managers to support the change
• Fit with national priorities
• Delivering on high priority national projects and
  seeking flexibility for other national activity
  to ensure a coherent programme of change

• The plan seeks to spread activity across the
  three year planning period.
• A number of areas have been identified for
  development in 2008/09 e.g. estates and hate
  crime, these may develop into projects in future
  years.

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What will be different
An improved Criminal Justice Service that
Making a significant difference to Londoners
Victims and Witnesses

• will experience a seamless and professional
  service where they are involved and informed and
  feel valued and supported throughout the justice
  process

Delivers simple and speedy justice
Communities

• will have a greater understanding and awareness
  of, and will want to engage with, the CJS
  confident that it is fair, effective and meets
  local needs

Supports the public
London CJS
Users of the CJS

• will experience a more efficient, fair and
  effective CJS which is more responsive to users
  needs and is able to better identify and address
  any unfair disproportionality

Makes people feel safer
Improves the CJS response to Youth
Staff, practitioners volunteers

• will be more confident to speak about the CJS as
  one service rather than single agencies and be
  proud of the contribution that they make

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Annex A Description of projects and proposals
efficiency and effectiveness
Project/Proposal
What is it?
Implementation of a streamlined process for the
preparation of case files to ensure they are
proportionate and therefore release police time.
Directors Guidance Streamlined Process (DGSP)
Integrated Prosecution Teams (IPT)
A single file and administrative process managed
between the CPS and police to reduce duplication
whilst improving performance.
Virtual Courts
Using video conferencing and document sharing
technology to allow defendants to be heard in
court from police stations, with some cases dealt
with in a matter of hours.
CJSSS Youth
The aims will be essentially the same as for
CJSSS in the Magistrates court to transfer the
principles of CJSSS in the magistrates' court
into the working of the youth court
Exchange Links
Exchange Links includes (NSPIS- COMPASS, NSPIS-
LIBRA)
Bichard R7
Deliver recommendation 7 of the Bichard enquiry
by improving both the speed and accuracy of the
entry of court results onto the PNC - speeding up
the sharing of data on dangerous offenders
PROGRESS
Progress is the IT tool to support the criminal
case progression function
Traffic
Project to improve the current low level of
traffic prosecutions in London
Estates
A review to consider how to optimise the estate
resources owned by each agency
Enforcement
A problem analysis of issues and possible
solutions to support improved enforcement. This
will lead to business improvement activity and
possibly further project activity.