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Criminal justice system initiatives
On this page:
- Our work within the Criminal Justice System
- About Waterfall
- National Offender Management Service (NOMS)
- Regional priorities
- For more information
Our work within the Criminal Justice System
We have corporate targets focusing on improving the justice system to help it work more effectively for clients, providers and agencies.
Our targets within the criminal justice system for 2009-10 are to:
- improve the efficiency of police station advice and assistance by nationally reducing the percentage of unanswered calls from CDS Direct by 10%
- to maintain existing membership of Local Criminal Justice Boards and attend at least 90% of meetings.
Our membership of the Local Criminal Justice Boards is key to the success of this work, and will lead to the identification of other issues that require addressing at a local level.
About Waterfall
Waterfall is an activity model produced by the Office for Criminal Justice Reform (OCJR).
It highlights the costs of the Criminal Justice System agencies and where the pressures exist.
We are working with the OCJR to determine:
- whether and/or where defence costs are appropriate
- which should be included
- updating the Waterfall accordingly.
We will be working with our justice system partners to:
- improve the defence’s experience of magistrates’ court listing practices
- police bail-back procedures and delays and discontinuances.
National Offender Management Service (NOMS)
A survey on the efficiency of prison visits was circulated to provider via the 9 October 2008 LSC Update email. Responses to this survey are informing further work with the National Offender Management Service and the Prison Service to improve efficiency.Regional priorities
Priorities for each region have been determined from baseline data and action plans developed.
Every quarter, each region will report on:
- progress made against the baseline
- best practice they have shared
- barriers identified and resolved.
Regular updates on progress will be made on these pages.
For more information
See the following pages for further information on our criminal justice system initiatives:
With other questions please contact:
- your LSC regional lead under Documents
- our dedicated email address: improvingefficiency@legalservices.gov.uk.
Last updated: 30 April 2009