Her Majesty's Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HMCPSI) has today (25 March 2021) issued a report following their Inspection of CPS handling correspondence from police witness care units. The report follows up on a 2019 report into the handling of defence correspondence.
CPS advocacy – oral and written – brings the law, and our role as prosecutors, to life. It is the medium through which we explain our decisions, present our cases, and support witnesses to give their best evidence at every hearing and across all courts.
NDIP Phase Two was launched in November 2018. Its focus was to replicate the commitment, governance and drive we saw nationally though the NDIP Board, at a local level; to ‘make the national local’. In January 2020 we published an update of our progress. Now, just over one year on, we can report the conclusion of this phase of activity.
Her Majesty's Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HMCPSI) has today (9 March 2021) issued a report following their Inspection of the CPS Response to the Covid-19 pandemic - dealing with the on-going backlogs. The report is a follow up to the June publication of the HMCPSI Inspection of the effectiveness of the CPS response to the coronavirus pandemic prior to and during the period of national lockdown.
This document sets out the joint commitment of the Crown Prosecution Service, National Police Chiefs’ Council and the College of Policing to take action to drive improvement in case progression.
Her Majesty's Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HMCPSI) has today (2 March 2021) published a report that considers how effective and efficient the Complex Casework Units are in identifying and managing their casework.
This plan, which complements work already underway as part of the Joint Operational Improvement Board (JOIB), sets out how the police and the CPS will work together to improve our joint response to RASSO over the next three years.
Gender Pay Gap (GPG) legislation introduced in 2017 requires all employers with 250 employees or more to report annually on their gender pay gap. Government departments are covered by the Equality Act 2010 (Specific Duties and Public Authorities) Regulations 2017 which came into force on 31 March 2017. These regulations underpin the Public Sector Equality Duty and require the relevant organisations to publish their gender pay gap data by 30 March annually.