Source · Select Committees · Justice Committee
Recommendation 44
44
Accepted
Effective enforcement levers, including reinspection, crucial for improving agencies’ victim performance
Conclusion
We support the Government’s intention to improve monitoring mechanisms of agencies’ performance with respect to victims and note the Government’s plans to work with the inspectorates to develop a ratings system. A crucial part of this work will be ensuring that there are adequate levers in place to ensure that those agencies that are found to be failing victims take the necessary steps to improve their performance. One of those levers should be reinspection. We look forward to the further development of these proposals (Paragraph 145) Clause 13, the PHSO
Government Response Summary
The government accepted the recommendation, stating that reinspection is already utilized by inspectorates and will play a helpful role in driving up improvement for agencies found to be failing victims.
Government Response
Accepted
HM Government
Accepted
70. The Government’s response to the ‘Delivering Justice for Victims’ consultation set out non-legislative commitments to improve the focus on victims in core inspections, to rate criminal justice bodies treatment of victims and to ensure processes are in place for bodies which inspectorates rate poorly. Reinspection is already utilised by the inspectorates and the government agrees that reinspection will play a helpful role in driving up improvement. We therefore accept this recommendation. Clause 13, the PHSO