Victim Notification Scheme (VNS): independent review

Appendix C: Stakeholders

Scotland (Interviews)

Assist: Ann Fehilly, Fiona McMullen

Children and Young People's Commissioner for Scotland: Anthony McIlvaney and Cameron Wong McDermott

Children 1^st: Louise Hill and Caroline Kelly

Community Justice Scotland; Karen McCluskey, Rebecca Proctor, Chris McCully, Keith Gardner, Rose McConnachie and Laura Hoskins

Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service: Claire Wallace and Shenagh Davidson

Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland: Scott Blythe

MAPPA Local Arrangements: Jennifer Butler, Co-ordinator, Glasgow

Parole Board for Scotland: Colin Spivey, Elizabeth Thomson and Paul Jamie

Petal: Neil Moore

Police Scotland: DCI Graeme McLachlan and Inspector Alexander Marshall

Rape Crisis Scotland: Sandy Brindley

Risk Management Authority: Debbie Campbell, Hayley Warburton and Mark McSherry

SACRO: Yvonne Wilson, Andy Gosling and L Gale

Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service: Elaine Walker

Scottish Government: Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Veterans (supported by Lindsey Henderson)

Scottish Government (Case Related Data Transformation Project): Ruth McCallum and Emily Horgan

Scottish Government (CORO VNS): Nicola Paterson, Mari Bremner and Jennifer Watson

Scottish Government (Future of Custody Team) Jennifer Stoddart, Graham Ackerman, David Doris, Susan Thomson and Andrew Corrigan

Scottish Government (Justice Directorate): Anna Donald

Scottish Government (Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangements [MAPPA] policy): Avril Coats, Jeff Gibbons and Karen Lyon

Scottish Government (Redress) Laura McGeary, Catriona Syme, Lauren Kelly and Carol Lamont

Scottish Government (Secure Care): Alison Melville

Scottish Women's Aid: Louise Johnson, Kathryn Ramsay

Scottish Prison Service: Colin Plunkett, Liz McNamee, Emma Fulton and Emma Murphy

Victims Organisations Collaboration Forum (VOCFS): Linda Thompson; Margaret Dekker; Gillian Urquhart (Moira Anderson Foundation); Louise Hill (Children 1^st); Katie Anderson (Rape Crisis Scotland); Louise Johnson (Scottish Women's Aid); Debbie Storm, Stevie Tidy (chair) and Emily Jamison (all Victim Support Scotland)

Victims' Taskforce: Victim Centred Approach workstream: Colin Spivey (Parole Board for Scotland) and Catherine Docherty

Victim Support Scotland: Kate Wallace

International Contacts (By Interview Or Correspondence)

WR = Written Submission

I = Interview

Australia - Prosecution Service New South Wales (WS and open source material)

Canada - Office for the Federal Ombudsman for Victims of Crime: Mariam Musse and School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University: Prof. R Bent (WS)

Croatia - Ministry of Justice; Mikica Hamer Vidmar, Martina Bajto, Maida Pamuković (I)

Denmark - Director Generals Office, Danish Prisons and Probation Service:, Lise Garkier Hendriksen (WS)

Ireland - Prison Service: Emer Kelly (I)

Netherlands - Slachtofferhulp Nederlands: Robin Fontijne (I)

New Zealand - Victim Partnerships, Police National Headquarters: Karen Ellis (I)

Norway - Directorate of Norwegian Correctional Services: Per S Vague (WS)

Romania - Chief Commissioner of Penitentiary Police: Dan Halchin (WS)

Slovakia - Department of Inspection of Organisational Legal Activities: Capt. Dominika Gubanova, Senior Officer for International Co-operation (WS)

Spain (Catalonia) - Catalonia Ministry of Justice: Clara Casado Coronas, Lidia Sarratusell Salvado, Laura Roque Sanchez (I)

Sweden - Swedish Prison and Probation Service: Asa Nilsson (WS)

Switzerland - Federal Department of Justice and Police: Aimee Zermatten (WS)

UK (England and Wales) - (1) Victims Commissioner Dame Vera Baird and (2) Ministry of Justice Victim Care Team: Donna Sugarman, Emma Morris, Laura Toze and Nigel Battson (I)

UK (Northern Ireland) – (1) Victims Commissioner, Geraldine Hanna and (2) Probation Board for Northern Ireland, Victims Unit: Jean O'Neill (I)

Victim Support Europe - Levent Altan Sara Savoini (I)

USA - Department of Justice: Open source material