CPS response to HMCPSI landscape review of the CPS’s activity to support ‘honour’-based abuse casework, September 2026

Publication CPS responses to HMCPSI

His Majesty’s Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HMCPSI) has today published the first part of its inspection into the CPS’s activity to support ‘honour’-based abuse casework. The landscape review considers how the CPS has developed its approach to these cases.

We welcome the review’s recognition of the progress made to date. This includes the way learning from the CPS National Scrutiny Panel has informed updates to our prosecution guidance and is helping shape new training modules for prosecutors. These developments are part of our wider work to improve the quality and consistency of CPS decision-making in ‘honour’-based abuse and forced marriage cases.

We will consider the findings carefully and take them forward through our HBA, FM and FGM Action Plan. This will include progressing the development of a clearer role description for HBA Leads, continuing work to develop HBA training, and improving the consistency of case flagging and data accuracy so that we have a stronger understanding of this casework.

Victims and survivors remain at the centre of this work. We will continue to focus on improving communication with victims, identifying appropriate special measures, and building cases in a way that is trauma-informed, suspect-centric and responsive to the dynamics of ‘honour’-based abuse.

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