Conference Programme

Chair’s Opening Remarks
Richard Ford, Home Correspondent, The Times (CONFIRMED)

OPENING KEYNOTE: Efficient, Effective, and Transparent Justice

• Justice policy-making: getting the strategy right
• What the evidence tells us
• Providing the structures for operational success
  

Toward a Criminal Justice Service for Victims and Communities

• Transforming the criminal justice system into a criminal justice service: Protecting the public, cutting crime and ensuring improved victim support
• Raising public confidence and engaging communities in the work of the CJS, joining up justice
• Enhancing services for victims of crime – An update on the National Victims’ Service
• Making efficiency savings across the CJS to reinvest in reducing crime and delivering justice
• Supporting local criminal justice boards to develop and innovative through the use of ICT
• Using technology to safeguard victims and witnesses – creating infrastructure in all courts to provide video evidence via remote link
• Encouraging police and other criminal justice agencies to make information more widely available in local communities
• Tackling youth violence and knife crime: Engaging parents, schools and communities across Britain
• Changing attitudes and behaviour through social marketing - reviewing current successes
• Investing to assist frontline staff meet the changing needs of the public

Louise Casey, Victims' Commissioner, Ministry of Justice (CONFIRMED)

Policing in the 21st century: Replacing bureaucratic accountability with democratic accountability

• Making the police more accountable to local people:ramifications of having elected individuals holding  the police into account
• Wider community involvement in policing through partnership with the private and third sectors
• Adapting to the increasing complexity of modern policing at local and national levels, from visible  

    patrolling to serious crime and terrorism

• The role of the National Crime Agency and examining how greater collaboration across the service 

    can achieve efficiency savings

•  Maintaining operational independence against the practical reality of having directly elected Police

    and Crime Commissioners

• Recognising ACPO's lead role in setting standards and sharing best practice across a whole range

    of police activities

Invitation extended to: ACPO

Deafness and Mental Health- An Obstacle Race Through The Criminal Justice System

• Deafness  - Heterogeneous Communication needs

• Lack of Deaf Awareness in Criminal Justice System
• Deaf People in Court Procedures

      Fitness to plead

      Vulnerability in the CJS

      Use of Interpreters

      Use of Intermediaries

• Deaf People in Prison
• Deaf Forensic Services including SGHCG

Dr Brendan T Monteiro, Consultant Psychiatrist, Medical Director, St. George Health Care Group (CONFIRMED)

Training and Skills in the Criminal Justice System

• Placing greater responsibility and accountability in the hands of police and the community, prioritising and targeting resources
• Targeted measures to reduce crime and anti-social behaviour: Overhauling the Licensing Act; strengthening stop and search powers; and implementing early intervention measures
• Reforming the law to focus on ensuring that a fair balance is struck between freedom of expression and the protection of reputation
• NOMS and the European Social Fund; Co-Financing ex-offenders to access training opportunities
• Reducing reoffending – The role of the private and voluntary sectors in the rehabilitation of offenders upon exiting the CJS
• Needs for publishing deformation bill that will be put out for consultation and pre- legislative scrutiny in 2011
• The use of vocational training courses in providing ex-offenders with the skills for employment

Invitation extended to: Sue O'Hara, Offender Learning Director, Skills Funding Agency

Morning Panel Discussion: Towards Integrated Offender Care and Management

• Creating a justice system that is effective in bringing criminals to justice while engaging the public and inspiring confidence
• Joining-up justice, from arrest to trial, prison to community reintegration
• The role of community sentences and the promotion of restorative justice
• The challenge of delivering high quality probation services – Increasing participation by private and third sector organisations
• Moving towards an effective sentencing policy: The Sentencing Commission
• Linking sentencing to resources: The construction of more prisons

Invited Speakers:
Christine Lawrie, Chief Executive, The Probation Association (CONFIRMED)
Helen Edwards, Director-General, Criminal Justice

Louise Casey, Victims' Commissioner, Ministry of Justice (CONFIRMED)

Morning Coffee and Networking

Seminar session I

• Delivering justice during a time of fiscal restraint
• Working across government to remove barriers to effective data sharing and greater efficiency
• Securing sensitive data and information
• Digital forensics: the applications in solving serious organised crime
• Limiting and protecting access to networks of sensitive information
• Improving engagement and the public’s confidence through IT
• Connecting police forces to encourage collaborative working for local solutions
• Mobile wireless technology: Delivering data to the frontline
• Supporting Staff, Victim, and Offender: Video-conferencing technology
• Innovative solutions to safeguarding the community from acquisitive crime
• Tackling knife crime: The important role of the Third Sector
• Collecting, sharing and analysing management information
• Utilising Technology- Next generation community security
• Mobile Data Terminals: Revolutionising policing
• Interoperability – The Vital Link?
• Public Sector Networks: Linking up police and criminal justice agencies

Seminar session ll

AFTERNOON KEYNOTE: Improving the Health and Wellbeing of Offenders across the CJS

• From the Bradley Review to Improving Health, Supporting Justice – A Delivery Plan
• One year on, are individuals with health needs in the community and the CJS receiving the right care?
• The establishment of the Health and Criminal Justice Programme Board
• Identifying an individual’s health and social care needs early for the right treatment, at the right time, in the right place
• Tackling health inequalities, alcoholism and substance abuse to reduce criminality and offer offender rehabilitation
• Offender learning – Improving education and training opportunities for offenders to improve health and reduce recidivism
• Improving offender wellbeing and mental health to reduce deaths in custody
• World Class Commissioning – Commissioning effective and efficient services for offenders
• Integrating services, improving the quality of data, records, and information sharing, to help in the commissioning and delivery of quality health services in prisons
• Maximising opportunities for improvement through system reform, front-line innovation, improved workforce skills and training

David Behan CBE, Director General for Social Care, Local Government and Care Partnerships, Department of Health; Chair of the Health and Criminal Justice Board (CONFIRMED)

Care not prison – Changing the Lives of Offenders with a Learning Disability

• Learning disability within a prison environment – and how impairment, cohesion and vulnerability increase in the presence of a learning disability
• How early identification and assessment, as detailed in the Bradley Report and Improving Health, Supporting Justice delivery plan, is the only way forward
• The ‘changing tide of culpability’ for those with learning disabilities – and diverting the pathway from punishment to treatment
• The “value” of care debate – putting the individual first – with the most effective care in the most effective environment
• Changing lives - from offence to prison, from care to rehabilitation with real life examples
  

Dr Claire M Royston MB ChB MSc FRCPsych ,Medical Director, Care Principles (CONFIRMED)

Information Systems Improvement Strategy

• Delivering £200 million worth of savings by 2014, including £25 million saved in 2010-2011, through the Information Systems Improvement Strategy

• Transforming the way police information technology is developed,produced,implemented and managed

• Implementing strategy for national ICT procurement

• Decommissioning ICT departments and national legacy systems

• Providing opportunities for ICT suppliers to contribute towards the achievement of better procurement arrangements

• Encouraging innovation and the drive for new ideas to better support police ICT systems and processes

DDC Nick Gargan, Deputy CEO and Director of Policing Policy & Practice, National Policing Improvement Agency (CONFIRMED)

Protecting the Public and Reducing Re-Offending – Working with the Third Sector, Securing Effective Partnerships

• ‘Working with the third sector to reduce re-offending’ – Evaluating the MOJ’s progress in reducing barriers to the Third Sector’s role in reducing re-offending, protecting the public, and achieving safer communities
• The potential for social enterprise in reducing the 45 per cent reoffending rate, making savings of £360m in the costs of frontline services, and £250m in back office savings to 2013
• Actively reducing barriers to diverse third sector involvement; strengthening joint commissioning, and the involvement of all sectors in designing as well as delivering services
• Driving up the quality of volunteering and mentoring, and the number and diversity of volunteers
• Encouraging innovation in organisations providing holistic offender support
• The role of the Third Sector in filling niche roles and mainstream service provision
• Strengthening cross-sector relations to deal with serious crime, while also extending collaboration between forces to deliver value for money

Julie Taylor, Director of Offender Management Strategy and Third Sector Champion, Criminal Justice Group (CONFIRMED)

The Ministry of Justice: Towards a sustainable lean organisation

• Improvement requires change, urgency and strategic direction
• A coherent strategy deployed throughout all levels of the organisation
• An engaged workforce where all individuals feel empowered to make improvements
• A target of over £1bn in efficiency savings by March 2011
• Ensuring sustainability through a lean academy
• Lessons learned from the lean transformation of Ministry of Justice Shared Services
• What are the official success factors for becoming a lean organisation?

Rhian Hamer, Head of Lean Academy, Ministry of Justice (CONFIRMED)

CLOSING KEYNOTE: Rising Budgets, Rising Expectations – Seeking Greater Value for Money while Achieving Higher Standards in Policing

• Meeting the twin challenges of increased financial pressures and continued expectation from the public for high levels of service
• Providing best neighbourhood services to maximise delivery for the public
• Driving forward the reform agenda and supporting forces to use money where people want it spent – on the frontline
• The High Level Working Group Report on Police Value for Money – Delivering the £545 million savings promised in the Policing White Paper, delivering £346 million by 2012/13
• Contributing to the Home Office savings goal of £350m per annum by March 2013
• Streamlining back-office support services, increasing the efficiency of systems and processes
• Developing smarter procurement policies and finding cheaper IT solutions - £80 million from a 20% reduction in IT expenditure, including £40 million renegotiating existing contracts

• Applying modern science on the frontline; detect criminals faster, stay on the beat longer

• Utilising evidence from new technologies such as video capture and digital forensics to

  increase conviction rates and build confidence

Stephen Rimmer, Director General, Crime and Policing Group, Home Office; Chair, High Level Working Group on Value for Money (CONFIRMED)

Questions and Answers, Chair’s Closing Remarks and Conference Close