Easy Read Core Quality Standards

The Crown Prosecution Service has written Core Quality Standards. They tell you what we do when we prosecute criminals.

We try to make sure that we do the things written in the Core Quality Standards. The Core Quality Standards tell us how to do our job well.

Core Quality Standards are important because you depend on us to make the right decisions when we charge people with a crime.

This is not a summary of the Core Quality Standards. It is an easy read version.

It uses plain English and pictures to tell you what is written in the Core Quality Standards.

Some words are hard. The meaning of the word will appear when you hover your mouse over the word underlined in blue.

Contents

• Introduction
• What are Core Quality Standards?
• Standard 1. Giving the Police advice.
• Standard 2. Make the right charging decisions.
• Standard 3. Use Out of Court Disposals.
• Standard 4. Challenge bail for dangerous people.
• Standard 5. Work fast for justice.
• Standard 6. Be fair and firm in court.
• Standard 7. Help people to give evidence.
• Standard 8. Tell victims about changes.
• Standard 9. Help with sentencing.
• Standard 10. Think about challenging bad decisions in court.
• Standard 11. Deal with complaints quickly and openly.
• Standard 12. Consult about our decisions.