Source · Select Committees · Justice Committee
Recommendation 21
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Empower the Sentencing Council to increase public engagement on draft guidelines using online tools.
Conclusion
The Sentencing Council should be empowered to do more to encourage public engagement with its consultations on draft guidelines. For example, it should explore whether it could use the approach of using online questionnaires adopted by the Sentencing Guidelines Commission in the Netherlands to encourage more responses from the public to their consultations. Online questionnaires would appear to be a more accessible form of engagement than a simple call for written evidence. We would also recommend that any expansion in the scale of public engagement also includes the use of deliberative engagement tools similar to the public dialogue used as part of this inquiry. (Paragraph 100) Public understanding of sentencing and public confidence in the criminal justice system
Government response summary AI-generated
The government's response details the Common Platform case progression system, which is unrelated to the recommendation for the Sentencing Council to enhance public engagement with its consultations.
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Government Response
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HM Government · verbatim extract
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57. As the Committee will be aware, the Sentencing Council is independent of Government, and we understand that the Council will be responding to the Committee on the recommendations that apply specifically to the Council.
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