List of Directorate for Justice governance groups: FOI release

Information requested

You asked for a list sub/ governances groups or boards on the divisional level for the Justice Directorate.

These would be groups or boards that brings together external policy stakeholders with the Scottish Government to give strategic oversight of policy development and implementation.

Response

I enclose details of the information you requested.

For the purposes of my response, I have interpreted your ask as relating to governance groups and boards owned or run by the Directorate for Justice within the Scottish Government and which include external stakeholders as members. Therefore I have not included details of groups owned or run by other organisations or other Scottish Government business areas at which the Directorate for Justice is represented.

The list of governance groups is as follows:

• Prisoner Escort Strategic Multi-Agency Leadership Group
• Prison Population Assurance Group
• Community Justice Programme Board
• Scottish Government/Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service Senior Officials Meeting
• Criminal Justice Board
• Justice Board
• Victims Task Force

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