Targets
The Criminal Justice System needs to be transparent and accountable to the local communities it serves. Local Criminal Justice Boards (LCJBs) were established across England and Wales in April 2003 to enable us to do this better.
Each of the 42 LCJBs have targets which local agencies work together to achieve. The targets are:
- Bringing more offences to justice (also referred to as Narrowing the Justice Gap);
- Increasing the percentage of people who have confidence in the effectiveness of the Criminal Justice System in bringing offences to justice;
- Reducing the proportion of trials which do not go ahead as scheduled (known as ineffective trials) in both Crown and Magistrates’ Courts;
- Increasing the percentage of fine amounts imposed that are successfully collected, resolving community penalty breaches quicker, reducing the number of outstanding confiscation orders, reducing the number of unexecuted Fail to Appear warrants; and
- Reducing the average number of days from arrest to sentence of Persistent Young Offenders.
- Reducing the time taken to resolve a community penalty breach case from relevant unacceptable failure to comply to resolution.
Use the menu on the left to learn more about each of these targets. To find out how your Local Criminal Justice Board is performing, click on Performance Figures to view the latest data.