• Moving toward a clear, integrated, and modern Criminal Justice System
• Coroners and Justice Bill: Placing victims and witnesses at the centre of the Criminal Justice System
• Working across agencies and government departments to build public confidence
• Improving public confidence in data storage and the removal of barriers to effective data sharing
• Tackling youth violence and knife crime: Engaging parents, schools and communities across Britain
• Community Sentences: Developing the community justice approach by engaging with communities
• The expansion and modernisation of the prison estate - the role of the private sector
• Using new technology to increase security and disrupt the supply of drugs
• Encouraging competition to deliver more efficient and effective offender services
• Offender rehabilitation and reducing the rates of re-offending
• Promoting health and developing skills in prisons
• A Sentencing Commission: Promoting consistency

Sponsor Presentation by Ron Tulloch, Clinical Director (Mental Health) and Senior Fellow in Forensic Psychology, Care Principles

• Moving away from microcosm projects, transforming current practice in the CJS
• Creating a single virtual collaborative zone for the CJS
• Improving effectiveness and efficiency in bringing cases to court
• Modernising Charging – Delivering a timely service for officers and the court service
• Virtual court technology and electronically presented evidence – a simple, speedy and efficient process for the offender and the victim
• Electronic File Pilot – Using structured data information as a primary case file
• The benefits of implementing two-way Interface between police and the CPS
• Thinking Lean: Eliminating waste, empowering front-line workers, responding immediately to customer requests and optimising technological opportunities

• The Policing Green Paper and its impact on reducing bureaucracy in policing
• The role of the Independent Reducing Bureaucracy Advocate
• Collective responsibility – challenging government and police services to remove overly bureaucratic requirements, systems or processes
• Promoting the principles of ‘Lean Thinking’
• Standardisation of key police processes and forms
• Making more use of technology to free up officer time
• Maximising the use of Airwave equipment
• An additional £25 million on mobile data terminals by March 2010
• Improving collaboration and procurement
• Utilising digital recording technology

• Empowering the victim and the witness
• Treating post-traumatic stress and victim healing
• The role of the Third Sector in victim support and offender re-integration
• Creating a justice system that is effective in bringing criminals to justice while engaging the public and inspiring confidence
• The Criminal Justice and Immigration Act: Custody through the back door?
• 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: Is the answer the construction of more prisons?
• Prevention- Working within the community to tackle the roots of criminal behaviour

Speaker invitation extended to: The Rt Hon Baroness Scotland QC, The Attorney General

Jan Berry, Independent Reducing Bureaucracy Advocate (CONFIRMED)

• Technology to support the police and other agencies
• Research to protect the public against explosives and CBRN threat
• Pioneering the use of biometrics to assure identity
• Working in partnership with industry to innovate and develop technologies
• The role of social science  - understanding how people behave to reduce crime and prevent radicalisation
• The mutual requirements of our IT and Science Strategies
• Knowledge and data management - the Home Office Information, Systems and Technology Advisory Group
• Surveillance and responding to local needs
• Designing out crime
• A cross-government research strategy to support the government's drug strategy
• A programme of research and development to support the National CCTV Strategy
• Working with the scientific community to deliver our mutual objectives of protecting the public

Special Keynote: Increasing Transparency in the UK Judicial System

• Creating a visible and accessible Supreme Court
• Understanding the Court's organisational structure and remit

Jenny Rowe, Chief Executive of the UK Supreme Court (CONFIRMED)

• From the Policing Green Paper to the Engaging Communities Green Paper: The changing role of the police officer in Communities
• Establishing local efficiency and productivity standards, replacing top-down targets and embedding neighbourhood policing
• The Policing and Crime Bill - Increasing effectiveness and accountability in policing
• Facilitating and strengthening collaborative working of police forces at all levels
• Utilising technology and supporting officers in meeting priorities
• Providing front-line officers with top quality information technology systems
• Upgrading existing ICT equipment and developing a software framework to address future needs
• Empowering officers with a greater decision-making capacity
• The ‘Policing Pledge’ – Keeping you and your community safe from harm
• The value of crime mapping in keeping the public informed – increasing effectiveness, increasing trust

• Is an increase in acquisitive crime inevitable during an economic downturn?
• Cracking-down on Burglary: Cooperation between the Public, Private and Third Sectors to boost people’s personal security
• Providing a visible and responsive intelligence and operational capacity: How are police services meeting the crime challenge in a time of economic downturn?
  • Neighbourhood policing teams in every locality
  • Better use of forensic technology
  • Stronger management of offenders

• Transforming the way information is shared and used across the youth justice system
• Achieving connectivity: The three step approach to creating an information sharing platform for case management systems
• Connecting 30,000 workers across 200 sites
• eAsset and its role in bringing together risk assessment information to facilitate end-to-end sentence management, from reception through to resettlement
• Youth Justice Management Information System
• Secure eMail and ensuring that shared information is secure
• Using Wiring Up Youth Justice to promote the objectives of the YJB: Preventing offending, re-offending, and the causes of offending behaviour
• Joining up justice: Sharing information with the National Probation Service
• The case of Feltham Young Offender Institution: Moving away from paper-based case management

• A multi-agency approach: Breaking down barriers and sharing information
• The role of community mental health services in helping potential offenders avoid the criminal justice system
• Treating offenders with severe mental issues, not punishing them
• The Prison Reform Trust Report: ‘Too Little, Too Late’ and the strain on prisons
• Integrating an offender with mental health issues back into the community
• The expansion of existing public sector and private sector prisons - how can we better ensure that dangerously mentally disordered offenders have access to the right treatment
• Ensuring that the right staff with the right skills are in place at a local, regional and national level to ensure services are available
• Investing in diversion: The value-for-money case