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Success measures

The following success measures, drawn from CPS 2025, will be used to monitor progress against our key deliverables across 2023/24.

Our People
  • Diversity of our staff compared to national averages (for ethnicity, sexuality, disability and gender)
 
Digital Capability
  • Red, amber, green (RAG) rating for delivery of major digital projects (to time, budget and target benefit implying value for money)
  • Percentage and number of police partners or other investigators who share multimedia evidence with us on digital systems
 
Strategic Partnerships
  • Percentage and number of partnership objectives meeting milestone targets or completed on time
 
Casework Quality
  • Percentage of cases where appropriate legal decisions are made
  • Percentage and number of charging decisions that are completed on time
  • Percentage and number of cases dropped at 3rd or subsequent hearing
  • Percentage and number of judge directions that are complied with on time
  • Percentage and number of guilty pleas at first hearing
  • Percentage and number of cases for which disclosure obligations are met
  • Average (mean) number of hearings per case
 
Public Confidence
  • Percentage of our community panel members who agree with ‘The CPS responds to our feedback’
  • Percentage of the public who agree with ‘I am confident that the CPS is effective at prosecuting people accused of committing a crime’ (YouGov)
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