| 08:40 |
Registration and Networking |
| 09:20 |
Opening Remarks by Conference Chair,
Marcel Berlins, Legal Commentator, The Guardian (CONFIRMED) |
| 09:25 |
Opening Keynote: The Reform Agenda – Creating an Effective, Transparent and Responsive Criminal Justice Sector
- 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
Helen Edwards, Director General - Criminal Justice, Ministry of Justice (CONFIRMED) |
| 09:40 |
Sponsor Presentation by Ron Tulloch, Clinical Director (Mental Health) and Senior Fellow in Forensic Psychology, Care Principles
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| 09:55 |
Challenging the Criminal Justice System to ‘Think Lean’
- 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
David Jones, Chair of the Chief Information Officers Group, CJS (CONFIRMED) |
| 10:10 |
The Time for Action: Cutting Police Red Tape
- 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
Jan Berry, Independent Reducing Bureaucracy Advocate (CONFIRMED) |
| 10:25 |
Morning Panel Discussion: Increasing Public Confidence- Supporting both the Victim and the Offender
- 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
Louise Casey, The Government’s Neighbourhood Crime and Justice Advisor, Home Office (CONFIRMED)
Speaker invitation extended to: The Rt Hon Baroness Scotland QC, The Attorney General
Jan Berry, Independent Reducing Bureaucracy Advocate (CONFIRMED) |
| 10:55 |
Coffee and Networking in Exhibition Area |
| 11:25 |
Seminar Session One |
| 12:25 |
Lunch |
| 13:25 |
Seminar Session Two |
| 14:25 |
Coffee and Networking in Exhibition Area |
| 14:55 |
Afternoon Keynote Address – The Home Office Science and Innovation Strategy 2009-12: Providing the Technological Innovation to Support Operational Requirements
- 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
Alan Pratt, Director, Scientific Development Branch, Home Office (CONFIRMED) |
| 15:10 |
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) |
| 15:25 |
The Future of Policing: Strengthening the Link between the Public and the Police
- 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
Speaker invitation extended to: Sir Hugh Orde, President, Association of Chief Police Officers |
| 15:40 |
Sponsor Presentation |
| 15:55 |
Tackling Acquisitive Crime: Criminality and the Recession
- 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
Professor Gloria Laycock, Director, Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science, University College London (CONFIRMED) |
| 16:10 |
Wiring Up Youth Justice: Promoting Efficiency
- 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
Frances Done, Chair of the Youth Justice Board (CONFIRMED) |
| 16:25 |
Closing Keynote: Mental Health and Offender Management - Lord Bradley's Review
- 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
Lord Bradley, Author of the Independent Review of Mental Health in the Criminal Justice System (CONFIRMED) |
| 16:40 |
Questions and Answers |
| 16:50 |
Chair’s Final Thoughts and Conference Close |