Redesigning the Community Justice System

1. Redesigning the Community Justice System Consultation on Proposals

2. Current Arrangements • Management of Offenders (Scotland ) Act 2005 • 8 Community Justice Authorities • Lothian and Borders Community Justice Authority • Ring fenced funding to local authorities by CJA • CJAs - planning, monitoring and reporting functions • Local Authorities – operational, strategic, and commissioning functions

3. Drivers for Change • Single Police Service • Single Fire Service • Crown Office and PF Service federation structure • Scottish Courts Service proposals • Health and Social Care Partnerships • Commission on Women Offenders • Audit Scotland Report

4. Option A: Enhanced CJA Model • Same 8 CJAs • Wider membership (including Health) and chair appointed by Scottish Government. Option to co-opt two non-executive members. Alternative – all board members appointed • Statutory duty on all partners to work together to develop a local plan for reducing reoffending and engage in its delivery • Statutory functions expanded to include strategic commissioning of services and to promote CJA’s role in the community and represent community justice interests with the local judiciary, media and public

5. Option B: Local Authority Model • CJAs abolished • Statutory responsibility on LAs to work with partners to produce and deliver a strategic plan for reducing reoffending (including consultation with judiciary, members of the community, service users and their families) • Allocation of funding, accountability and performance requirements set out in legislation • Wider role for the Risk Management Authority, particularly overview of LA strategic plans, data analysis, performance improvement and workforce development • Role for community planning and Single Outcome Agreements • Leadership Group (Scottish Government and COSLA)

6. Option C: Single Service Model (1) • CJAs abolished • National social work led service for community justice • Core values and principles of social work • Non-Departmental Public Body with a Chief Executive • Appointed Board will set strategic framework • Board accountable to Ministers • Ministers accountable to Parliament • Strategic and operational responsibility for planning, managing and delivery of community based offender services • Incorporate existing functions of Risk Management Authority • Local authority CJ staff and RMA staff would transfer to new body

7. Option C: Single Service Model (2) • Community justice services delivered locally, grouped geographically on the three federation model of COPFS and Police • Area directors senior to existing criminal justice social work managers, with similar powers and duties as the Chief Social Work Officer • Area Director responsible for working with local partners to undertake strategic commissioning • Services commissioned nationally for particular interventions or where there is potential for financial savings • Chief Executive expected to have “considerable leverage to liaise and negotiate on an equal footing with other national agencies” • Workforce development role • Specific role in relation to Orders for Lifelong Restriction