Business plan overview
The purpose of this business plan is to:
- Summarise our priorities for the year ahead and map progress towards longer-term ambitions
- Demonstrate alignment between our work and the CPS 2025 aims and outcomes
- Create clear ownership and accountability for the activities that we undertake
- Share our plans with colleagues and partners, creating a clear foundation upon which to build nationally and locally
- Position us to work effectively with partners in the transformation of criminal justice
The plan is made up of three main sections that outline the context in which it has been developed, the key areas of work that we will take forward and how our governance structures will oversee its implementation.
The background, ambition and context sections explore the wider context and key factors that inform this year’s business plan, including the CPS’s role and the challenges of the current operating environment.
Our delivery plan section provides a strategic view of the CPS’s work in the year ahead through an overview of planned projects and outputs, grouped by their CPS 2025 theme and mapped by the 2025 outcome they deliver against. The final section gives a brief financial summary and an overview of the governance structures that will scrutinise the implementation of the plan over the coming year.
Our vision
We are a leading voice in transforming the criminal justice system, using our legal expertise and digital capability to make the public safer and build the confidence of our diverse communities.
Our mission
We deliver justice through independent and fair prosecutions.
Our values
- Treat everyone with respect – we will respect each other, our colleagues and the public we serve, recognising that there are people behind every case.
- Be independent and fair – we will prosecute independently, without bias and will seek to deliver justice in every case.
- Behave professionally and strive for excellence – we will work as one team, always seeking new and better ways to deliver the best possible service for the public. We will be efficient and responsible with taxpayers’ money.
- Be honest and open – we will explain our decisions, set clear standards about the service the public can expect from us and be honest if we make a mistake.