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Prosecution Guidance Victims, Witnesses and Community Impact

Special Measures

Updated: 29 August 2023; 29 October 2024

Prosecution Guidance Victims, Witnesses and Community Impact

Victims' Right to Review Scheme

Updated: 27 May 2021

Last updated: December 2020

Prosecution Guidance Victims, Witnesses and Community Impact

Community Impact Statements

; New guidance added 29/10/2019

Prosecution Guidance Victims, Witnesses and Community Impact

Mental Health: Victims and Witnesses

Updated: 25 April 2023

This guidance identifies the principles relevant to victims and witnesses with mental health conditions or disorders, namely a mental disorder, as defined by the Mental Health Act 2007, a learning disability, a learning difficulty, autism Spectrum Disorder, an acquired brain injury, dementia, other mental health, cognitive or neuro-diverse conditions.

Prosecution Guidance Victims, Witnesses and Community Impact

Safeguarding Children as Victims and Witnesses

Updated: Oct 2019; 24 May 2024; 15 Dec 2025

The purpose of this document is to provide practical and legal guidance to prosecutors dealing with cases that involve children (Article 1 of the UN Convention defines a child as any person who has not yet reached their 18th birthday) as victims and witnesses.

Prosecution Guidance Victims, Witnesses and Community Impact Vulnerable Persons and Safeguarding

Older People: Prosecuting Crimes against

updated 30 April 2020

This guidance deals with older people as victims and witnesses, not as offenders. It should be read in conjunction with the CPS Policy Guidance on the prosecution of crimes against older people.

Prosecution Guidance Fraud and economic crime Hate crime Victims, Witnesses and Community Impact

Witness protection and anonymity

Updated: 28 Sept 2022; minor update: 20 Sept 2023; 12 March 2025

Prosecution Guidance Victims, Witnesses and Community Impact

Coroners

Updated: 02 February 2021

Prosecution Guidance Victims, Witnesses and Community Impact