2022 Agenda
Welcome to the Modernising Criminal Justice Conference 2022
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- The Prison White Paper – Delivering the biggest prison building program in more than 100 years, with almost £4 billion to create up to 20,000 additional prison places to help us to meet demand as tougher sentencing rules come in and the courts clear backlogs
- Cutting Crime – Rehabilitating offenders and creating a safer and more stable environment through innovative design and in-cell technology across prisons in England and Wales
- Protecting the public from the most serious and dangerous offenders through the prison building programme- an update
- Using additional £550million to rehabilitate offenders and protecting the public – getting ex-prisoners into work and keeping them off the streets to tackle the root causes of crime
- Expanding the use of technology to protect victims and reform offenders through GPS Tracking
- Increase court capacity using technology that can deliver better experience and restore effective justice for the average citizen
- £185million a year to delivering step change in the way we support victims and transform the way the justice system treats violence against women
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COVID-19 has radically altered criminal justice system forever. We have seen digital adoption accelerated across our courts, prisons and probation services and have seen organisations having to evolve, adapt to change and embrace new technologies, all of which were enabled by having the right digital infrastructure in place, however there is a long way to go.
Join our panel of experts to:
- Discuss the next steps for delivering a connected justice system
- Consider the existing challenges and barriers to digital transformation
- Examine the progress made over the past 12 months across the justice agencies
- Understand how can we access data at the right time to make better decisions and improve efficiencies?
- The need for better access to data for courts, prisons and probation services
- Debate how the justice system can work collaboratively with the tech industry to unlock innovation and digitise services
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- Our understanding of what victims need from the CPS
- Our future plans to improve our service to victims
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ROOM: Westminster
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ROOM: St James
- Assess the Digital, Data & Technology Strategy and progress made 12 months on
- Discuss the vital role technology plays in the build of future prisons and opportunities in supporting rehabilitation programmes
- Meeting the 2024 vision – providing staff with up-to-date IT equipment and applications to work effectively, efficiently, and collaboratively
- Debate how we can replace our legacy systems with simpler, clearer, faster digital services
- Using Digitalisation to improve mental health and reduce re-offending
- Capture, store and share high quality data across our services leading to better and faster decision-making
- Make video conferencing accessible to everyone in prison and probation to build rehabilitative relationships
- Future Technologies -Using Biometrics, Facial Recognition, Health Monitoring Technology to transform services
- Making prison design compatible with future tech innovation
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ROOM: Abbey
The Strategic Review of Policing in England and Wales is examining how crime, fear of crime and other threats to public safety are changing and assess the ability of the police to respond. This far-reaching independent review set for release in early March 2022 aims to set a long term strategic direction for the police service so that it is better able to tackle crime in an age where it is being transformed by new technology and wider social change.
Join our panel of experts to discuss and examine the findings and aims of the strategic review and debate what must be done so that policing can adapt to the digital environment, ensure it can pursue criminals, protect the vulnerable, and reduce crime.
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ROOM: Westminster
- What has reform done for data?
- How can we harness data effectively to help improve the Criminal Justice Sector?
- Where are the gaps in relation to our understanding of the experience of victims, and how can reform help?
- New Technology, New Data – how can we better understand the data these solutions will generate and what to do with the data
- Rules on access – explore how accessible a digital justice system will be for the end user?
- The need to improve the collection and sharing of data
- Threats and Opportunities
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ROOM: St James
With more than 30 ransomware attacks every second. The MOJ needs a new approach to managing and protecting data. This is especially relevant as more information is fragmented in the multi-cloud world and open to more points of access for collaboration and sharing.
In this session Veritas explores the Ransomware Threat to UK Public sector and best practices to stay ahead of the Cyber Criminals, who look to do harm in critical infrastructure.
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ROOM: Abbey
- Reducing trauma for victims and witnesses so they can provide better evidence
- Using technology to bolster support for victims and ensuring a new approach to investigations
- Decreasing the number of victims withdrawing from the process
- Increasing the volume of trials being heard
- Protecting the public and putting more rapists behind bars
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Morning seminar sessions offers you an excellent opportunity to learn, network and gain valuable insights on a variety of themes across the justice sector. More seminar details to follow from the following:
ROOM: Wordsworth
The dawn of the internet and mass proliferation of technology has brought seismic and irreversible change to the world over the past 20 years and crime and justice is no exception to this. With this considered is it really possible for justice and digital justice to be recognized as two distinct concepts and can we continue to use the tools of yesterday to meet the challenges of today?
To answer this we’ll look at the profound shift in the nature of crime and justice over the past 20 years with a focus on how forces such as The Metropolitan Police and the Police Service of Northern Ireland have transformed the way that they collaborate with the wider criminal justice ecosystem and the public to ensure they are up to the challenge of law enforcement in the 21st century.
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ROOM: St James
The panel will share their experience of the practical steps that can make data interoperable across the diverse Justice Sector, such as offender passports that help achieve a meaningful understanding of offending individuals and not just an order or case. This will cover points of interest to a wide range of Justice stakeholders, from Police; Courts; Probation; Sentencers and Policy and will provide insight into the long-term benefits of interventions, coupled with the foundation for building a model of offender behaviour with the opportunity to ask questions as part of a closing Q&A.
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ROOM: Westminster
Imagine fast and complete data sharing to support evidence based decision making. A better experience for victims, witnesses and all of the protagonists in every case.
Data is the key in each case in the justice system to understanding the story, however, the current process for sharing data is complex, resource intensive and time-hungry.
In this seminar we will be joined by North Yorkshire Police to co-present a powerful case study known as Project Shield, where CGI worked in partnership with North Yorkshire police, justice agencies, charities and academia to put in place more effective measures to better protect victims and survivors or domestic abuse by joining up sources of data.
We will then take lessons learned to explore what would mean in practice to join up data across justice and what is the future for the justice system?
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ROOM: Abbey
This seminar will explore how, by working together, we can address the big social issues within the Criminal Justice System. We will look at how Partnerships across all aspects of criminal justice, and beyond, can improve outcomes for society, citizens, communities, and those who commit to supporting victims, supporting rehabilitation, and those who wish to reform.
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ROOM: Shelley
The seminar will cover modernising of medication management in prisons, based on a Proof of Concept implementation of an innovative solution in collaboration between Serco, PPG (the healthcare provider) and the suppliers: Traka and Unilink Software.
There are many health inequalities between the prison population and the general population. For example, 42% of men and women in prison suffered from depression, compared to just over 10% of the rest of the population.
Custodial settings have experienced increased medication requirements for prisoners and projections suggest the volume of medications will continue to rise.
Prisoners often experience problems getting the medication they require. These include flash points around medical hatches, prisoners being bullied to handover their medication and prisoners having to choose between recreational activities or picking up their medication. These poor prisoner experiences when collecting medicine cause unsafe environments not just for prisoners but for all involved, including prison officers and healthcare professionals.
Technology solutions can facilitate flexible collection to create a secure environment for prisoners, healthcare professionals and prison staff to manage medications safely.
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Catch up with your peers at the conference in between sessions or during your complimentary lunch break.
Get to know the faces behind the innovations as you journey through the conference exhibition floor. This offers you the opportunity to meet providers who can help you kickstart your projects and improve efficiency within your organisations, by making the most of new products and services.
Afternoon seminar sessions offers you an excellent opportunity to learn, network and gain valuable insights on a variety of themes across the justice sector. More details to follow.
ROOM: Westminster
In responding to the coronavirus pandemic CNWL NHS Foundation Trust accelerated the adoption of digital across our health and care services. We are particularly proud of the advances our Health and Justice Services have made in utilising innovative technology to:
- improve patient safety
- create additional capacity,
- improve health and well-being and
- promote digital inclusion
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ROOM: Shelley
The Senior Leadership Team at Meganexus and The CEO of SWIM Enterprises will be discussing The Resettlement Passport.
This unique solution will help to bridge the gap of data poverty for prison leavers. Enabling service users to collect, control, consent and share their documents prior to their release and is easily accessed once back in the community.
- Introductions
- About MEGANEXUS
- About SWIM
- MEGANEXUS AND SWIM – Resettlement Passport
- How we can help
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ROOM: Abbey
How a government team of eight contracted Service Desk Analysts supporting 18 heritage services evolved into a blended Civil Servant and Managed Service function supporting over 200+ digital, scalable services across more than 7 portfolios.
Join us for an exploration of how the Digital & Technology Services department within Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunal Services has matured its capability and capacity over the space of four years.
We will take you through how HMCTS transformed its Service Desk, Service Operations and Service Tooling – including the implementation of complex integrations to support efficiency and automation – and how it is now looking to the future. All in the midst of significant programmes of Digital Reform, a global pandemic, and a changing economic landscape.
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ROOM: St James
Join this seminar and discuss and learn:
- How do we define quality data?
- The impact of poor data quality on your people and communities
- Practical improvements to data quality
- Case studies
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ROOM: Wordsworth
Meeting the needs of offenders with neurodiverse conditions is becoming an increasingly important part of the Criminal Justice System agenda, with the 2021 evidence review of Neurodiversity in the Criminal Justice System identifying serious gaps in screening, resourcing and staff training, and the Prisons Strategy White Paper recognising the need for greater tailoring of prison services to better support people with ADHD. An estimated 25% of offenders have ADHD, a five to tenfold prevalence increase compared to the general population, yet the condition remains critically undiagnosed in prisons. Evidence shows that ADHD is linked to an increased risk of critical incidents (specifically verbal aggression and damage to property) and greater likelihood of re-offending, and the cost to the Criminal Justice System of untreated ADHD is estimated at £11.7m annually. However, if ADHD is recognised and managed appropriately, there could be a reduction in criminality of 32% in men and 41% in women.
Join our expert panel discussion to explore why it is so important that people with ADHD are recognised and have access to appropriate care, and the impact this can have across the Criminal Justice System.
- Why is it important to recognise offenders with ADHD?
- What does appropriate care look like for ADHD in prison?
- What benefits would improved recognition and training in ADHD bring to the Criminal Justice System?
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ROOM: Main Plenary
Governments have long been working to transform justice systems by implementing procedural reforms and integrating technology. Salesforce is committed and investing heavily in bringing its overwhelming success in the private sector to public services such as this; to take complexity from legacy, to complement and enhance the current, and to bring proven rapid and organic solutions to tomorrow’s vision.
Hear how our technology can help:
- Integration – unify and simplify legacy data and applications, turn an historic problem into an asset
- Case management – rapid, configurable case management and managed multi-layer communications
- Automation – remove costly lag from process, boost performance and reduce overhead
- Collaboration – powerful common platform to complement all parts of the justice system
- Optimal Service management – full control and visibility of complex control centres and field operations, scalable and flexible
- Make data work for you – making the illogical, logical with powerful analytics and interrogation
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We are delighted to be joined by Professor Dame Carol Black who will talk about the key findings from her independent review of drugs, including mental health and addiction treatment, prison services and the importance of and need for collaborative and cross-departmental working.
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ROOM: Westminster
This session will share insights on the progress of the new probation service delivery one year on.
Join Jim Barton, Director in HMPPS and SRO for the Probation Reform and Electronic Monitoring Programmes, as he provides an update on what is working well so far, and offering guidance on further developments for the unified system.
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ROOM: St James
In this session we are delighted to welcome Tony Blaker from the Police Digital Service who will provide his insights.
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ROOM: Abbey
The murder of Sarah Everard by a serving police officer has prompted widespread concerns about women’s safety and male violence. With the release of the 2021 Domestic Abuse Act, new support measures for victims and survivors, and additional powers for police including Domestic Abuse Protection Notices this panel will discuss the latest updates with sector leaders in tackling violence, abuse and harassment directed towards women and girls.
- Examine the latest developments, including VAWG strategy and what these measures mean for different stakeholders involved in responding to and preventing VWAG
- Discuss best practice joined up working for a successful multi-agency approach
- Making a difference on the streets – The Safer Street Fund – £23.5 million of funding for police and councils to improve the safety of women and girls
- Providing skills, training and tools for front-line professionals: accessing and sharing best practice guidance, training and resources
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ROOM: Westminster
- A £20million innovation programme, funded through HMT’s Shared Outcomes Fund, working with tech companies, third sector organisations, and across government departments to generate and deliver new initiatives to break the cycle of crime.
- Testing a range of approaches to identify scalable and effective opportunities to reduce reoffending based on robust evidence.
- Injecting the innovation and dynamism of the tech sector to develop custom-made solutions to reoffending challenges.
- Using the Local Leadership and Integration Fund – forging new local partnerships across voluntary and public sector to improve services that reduce reoffending in their communities.
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ROOM: St James
In June 2021 Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service published its Digital, Data & Technology Strategy. This strategy document promised profound changes which many staff in prison and probation services have been requesting for years. In this session the Probation Digital will outline progress on:
- Upgrading end-user technology for back-office staff in the Probation Service, focusing on connectivity, interoperability, and cost-effectiveness
- Replacing legacy laptops, desktops and mobile devices for all staff working for the organisation
- Working to improve data sharing amongst employees to enable better decision making
- Building simpler, clearer, faster to use service including in the areas of risk assessment and case preparation for a sentence
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ROOM: Main Plenary
In June 2021 the government introduced a new Probation Service responsible for the management of offenders across the country. The need to break the offender cycle continues to be a major challenge for the criminal justice system, but where are we at in 2022?
- What have these changes meant for how services for people in prison and under probation supervision are managed?
- How has this supported offenders to reintegrate into local communities
- The need to create and enable effective multi-agency partnerships through the sharing of strategies and tools
- How can digital services enhance service delivery while preserving the centrality of human relationships with offenders and probation officers?
- Delivering Mental Health Support to Offenders and Opening Up Pathways to Employment
- Creating Sustainable Education and Employment Opportunities Through the Probation System
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