Current Initiatives


Since the launch of the Delivering Simple Speedy Summary Justice (CJSSS) initiative in Staffordshire all partners involved in the Criminal Justice System have worked closely together, changing or adapting the way they work to ensure criminal cases are processed through the different agencies more quickly and efficiently.

To find out how they have done this, please see our latest Across the Board newsletter by clicking here or go to Downloads/Internal Newsletters.

 

As part of the Delivery Agreement, our current initiatives encompass the key priorities Staffordshire Local Criminal Justice Board intends to tackle in its delivery of narrowing the justice gap and increasing public confidence in the criminal justice system in Staffordshire.
Much of the work being proposed builds on initiatives that have been successfully developed over a number of years by each of the criminal justice agencies in Staffordshire working closely together.

Beacon Approach
This is a new way of managing the criminal justice reform programme nationally and of delivering sustainable improvements locally. The Office for Criminal Justice Reform (OCJR) is working with 10 selected LCJBs to develop the Beacon Approach, including Staffordshire. These LCJBs will implement a Core Programme of national reform projects. Further details can be found in the July edition of our Across the Board newsletter here or by clicking on Downloads/Internal Newsletter.

Further details can be found in the July 2007 edition of our Across the Board newsletter here or the January 2008 edition here or by clicking on Downloads/Internal Newsletter.

Simple, Speedy, Summary Justice (CJSSS)
This initiative, which is being rolled out across Staffordshire from 6 August, will improve the speed and effectiveness of the court system but will involve every criminal justice agency changing or adapting the way they work, to ensure criminal cases are progressed through the different agencies quicker and more efficiently. Further details can be found in the July edition of our Across the Board newsletter here or by clicking on Downloads/Internal Newsletter.

Community Engagement
Improving public confidence in the CJS through closer community engagement with the criminal justice process, including measures such as provision of community engagement officers in magistrates' courts, feedback to the community, community payback schemes.

Conditional Cautioning
Increasing effective diversion of cases from court process through provision of a caution with associated compulsory reparative and/or preventative conditions which if breached or not performed result in a charge and prosecution.

Director's Guidance Quick Process
Making more effective use of resources by streamlining the file building process for certain straight forward guilty plea cases suitable for hearing in a magistrates' court.

Justice Awards 2007
Nominations for The Justice Awards 2007 will be opening shortly and staff and volunteers across the Staffordshire have been nominating their colleagues and team-mates for an award.
The nomination period will close on 3rd August 2007, so take the chance now to give the individuals and teams you work with the recognition they deserve by nominating them.
The Justice Awards are open to anyone working in the Criminal Justice System, and anyone from a voluntary organisation working with victims, witnesses, defendants or offenders.
For further information and how to apply, please visit www.cjsonline.gov.uk/justiceawards, or contact the Justice Awards team via Email Tel: 020 7035 8737, or for more information, view the Information page

Inside Justice Week 2007
Inside Justice Week takes place this year from 3 - 10 November 2007. The aim of the week is to raise awareness of the criminal justice system and of the improvements that are being delivered across Staffordshire. For more information and the latest updates on planned activities, click here

PROGRESS
Improving efficiency in the support for the magistrates' court listing process by using the PROGRESS IT linkage to improve the effectiveness of case progression work between CPS and HMCS.

Witness Charter
Improving confidence in the CJS by establishing standards of service for non-expert witnesses from pre-arrest to post-trial.

Case Management Criminal Case Management Programme - Local Framework Summary Document Criminal Case Management AGENCY SUMMARY - Action Plan to implement the Staffordshire Framework Document Full Action Plan - Table Document

Service User Panel
We are establishing this panel in consultation with Victim Support Stafordshire to allow people, for example, victims and witnesses, who use the criminal justice system in Staffordshire to have a say and to shape policy.
This panel will meet quarterly and this will allow you to meet Chief Officers of criminal justice agencies and tell them your views and what services you would like to see. If you would like to be a member of this pioneering Service User Panel, please click here to find out more. (12th December 2003)

Staffordshire Criminal Justice Board's Premium Service Protocol for dealing with persistent offenders.
To download click here.

Staffordshire Criminal Justice Board's Prolific and Other Priority Offender Strategy.
To discover how we address work of the three strands of Prevent & Deter, Catch & Convict and Resettle & Rehabilitate click here.

Staffordshire Criminal Justice Board's Anti-Social Behaviour Orders Protocol.
To download click here.

 

 

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