Publication - Consultation paper
National Strategy for Community Justice: Review Consultation
A consultation to support the statutory review of the National Strategy for Community Justice.
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Annex A – Priority actions and corresponding nationally determined outcomes
| Priority action (included in the strategy) | Corresponding nationally determined outcome (included in the performance framework) |
|---|---|
| 1. Enhance intervention at the earliest opportunity by ensuring greater consistency, confidence in and awareness of services which support the use of direct measures and diversion from prosecution | More people successfully complete diversion from prosecution |
| 2. Improve the identification of underlying needs and the delivery of support following arrest by ensuring the provision of person-centred care within police custody and building upon referral opportunities to services including substance use and mental health services | More people in police custody receive support to address their needs |
| 3. Support the use of robust alternatives to remand by ensuring high quality bail services are consistently available and delivered effectively | More people are assessed for and successfully complete bail supervision |
| 5. Ensure that those given community sentences are supervised and supported appropriately to protect the public, promote desistance from offending and enable rehabilitation by delivering high quality, consistently available, trauma-informed services and programmes | More people access services to support desistance and successfully complete community sentences |
| 7. Enhance individuals’ access to health and social care and continuity of care following release from prison by improving the sharing of information and partnership-working between relevant partners | More people have access to, and continuity of, health and social care following release from a prison sentence |
| 8. Ensure that the housing needs of individuals in prison are addressed consistently and at an early stage by fully implementing and embedding the Sustainable Housing on Release for Everyone (SHORE) standards across all local authority areas | More people have access to suitable accommodation following release from a prison sentence |
| 9. Enhance individual’s life skills and readiness for employment by ensuring increased access to employability support through effective education, learning, training, career services and relevant benefit services | More people with convictions access support to enhance their readiness for employment |
| 10. Enhance community integration and support by increasing and promoting greater use of voluntary throughcare and third sector services | More people access voluntary throughcare following a short term prison sentence |
| 13. Support integration and reduce stigma by ensuring the community and workforce have an improved understanding of and confidence in community justice | More people across the workforce and in the community understand, and have confidence in, community justice |
Contact
Email: cjstrategy@gov.scot