National Strategy for Community Justice: review of 2022 strategy
Overview
The National Strategy for Community Justice provides the direction for community justice across Scotland, setting out aims, ambitions and priority actions. In addition to delivering justice, a community justice approach seeks to address the underlying causes of offending behaviour, such as drug and alcohol addiction, and put people on a better path that reduces the likelihood of them reoffending in future.
The Community Justice (Scotland) Act 2016 establishes the current model for Community Justice in Scotland. Section 16 of the act includes a statutory duty for Scottish Ministers to review the national strategy no later than 5 years after the previous review. The previous review concluded in November 2021. This consultation, alongside additional engagement with statutory partners and community justice stakeholders, will support Scottish Ministers in undertaking a review of the current National Strategy.
To help inform the review process, this consultation has been designed to determine respondents’ views on the following:
- Whether the strategy’s current scope is appropriate or not
- The impact of the strategy
- The usefulness of the aims and priority actions
- The elements of the strategy that are considered most and least useful
- The future priorities for community justice.
As part of the review, responses will be used to better understand the national strategy’s suitability and identify any areas for improvement.
The consultation paper contains full background information for this consultation. You may find it useful to read or refer to while responding.
Consultation questions preview
The consultation questions are included here for your reference. Please click 'Begin consultation' at the bottom of this page to proceed.
Q1: How would you rate the clarity and accessibility of the strategy?
Q2. To what extent do you agree/disagree that the strategy provides sufficient information on the following aspects of community justice?
Q3. i) To what extent do you agree or disagree that, taken together, the four national aims capture the most important aspects of community justice?
Q3. ii) Of the four aims, are there any that you consider to be either particularly important, or unimportant, with regard to capturing the most important aspects of community justice?
Q4. How useful do you think the current priority actions are in contributing to the achievement of national Aim 1 (Optimise the use of diversion and intervention at the earliest opportunity)?
Q5. How useful do you think the current priority actions are in contributing to the achievement of national Aim 2 (Ensure that robust and high quality community interventions and public protection arrangements are consistently in place across Scotland)?
Q6. How useful do you think the current priority actions are in contributing to the achievement of national Aim 3 (Ensure that services are accessible and available to address the needs of individuals accused or convicted of an offence)?
Q7. How useful do you think the current priority actions are in contributing to the achievement of national Aim 4 (Strengthen the leadership, engagement, and partnership working of local and national community justice partners)?
Q8. Thinking about the role the strategy has in the planning, delivery and reporting of community justice services, do you think the current number of priority actions is too low, about right, or too high?
Q9. Which elements of the strategy do you find most useful relative to your interest in community justice?
Q10. Which elements of the strategy do you find least useful relative to your interest in community justice?
Q11. Taking into account the likely resources available over the next 5 years, what do you believe are the three main community justice priorities over the next 3-5 years?
Q12. Do you have any other comments on the National Strategy for Community Justice that were not captured in the previous questions?
Useful information about responding to this consultation
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