Programme

08:30 Registration & Networking
09:10 Opening Remarks by Conference Chair
Juliet Lyon, Director, Prison Reform Trust (CONFIRMED)
09:20

Morning Keynote Address: Delivering Effective Justice for All

  • The pathways to reform
  • The vision for criminal justice for 2011
  • Reshaping prisons and probation
  • Bringing offences to justice
  • Working with communities
  • Victims and witnesses - putting them at the heart of the system
  • Users - a simpler, faster and more efficient process

Invited speaker: The Rt. Hon Jack Straw, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice

09:40

Cutting Crime, Reducing Bureaucracy - Policing for the 21st Century

  • Reducing bureaucracy - Effective business processes
  • Sustaining and maintaining - Progress of neighbourhood policing
  • IT in policing - Streamlining systems, reducing bureaucracy
  • Using mobile technology to improve efficiency
  • Exploiting IT in order to police more effectively
  • Managing resources effectively

Sir Ronnie Flanagan, GBE QPM, Author, Review of Policing 2008 (CONFIRMED)

09:55 Sponsor Presentation
10:10

Simple, Speedy, Summary - Speeding up the Prosecution and Court Systems through IT

  • Strengthening the prosecution process to bring offenders to justice
  • Transforming the Courts through the Electronic Presentation of Evidence
  • Challenge of modernising the Courts through the successful integration of technology enabled change
  • Championing justice - rules that don't privilege the offender over the victim
  • Inspiring the confidence of the communities we serve - fair sentencing
  • Using ICT for 21st Century solutions to crime

Sir Ken MacDonald QC, Director of Public Prosecutions, CPS (CONFIRMED)

10:25

Panel Debate: Prisons for the Future - Driving Penal Reform for the 21st Century

  • Addressing prison overcrowding - what is the impact?
  • Accelerating and expanding the building programme- but what kind of prisons do we want and need?
  • Changes to existing sentencing legislation - matching supply and demand for prison places
  • Changes in governance and organisational arrangements
  • Achieving greater financial control - Achieving the required efficiency savings
  • Standardising the way that services are provided for the public
  • Driving penal reform for the 21st Century - Renewing and re-organising the estate
  • Re-assessing what prisons are doing
  • A new emphasis on rehabilitation and offender learning
  • Ensuring prisons are 'fit for purpose'

Anne Owers, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons (CONFIRMED)

Lord Carter of Coles (CONFIRMED)

Edward Garnier QC, Shadow Home Affairs Minister (CONFIRMED)

11:15 Coffee & Networking in the exhibition area
11:50 Seminar Session One
12:50 Lunch
13:50 Seminar Session Two
14:50 Coffee & Networking in the exhibition area
15:20

Afternoon Keynote Address: The Police Reform Green Paper - Developing a Police Service for the Years Ahead

  • Where are we at?
  • The need to get the best out of our resources and capacity
  • Effective leadership and governance
  • Clear, effective performance machinery
  • Clarity and cooperation over competing demands
  • Transforming the MPS through HR - delivering real cost and efficiency benefits for effective front line policing

Assistant Commissioner Tim Godwin, ACPO & MPS lead on Criminal Justice, Metropolitan Police (CONFIRMED)

15:40 Sponsor Presentation
15:55

Delivering Effective Offender Management through Partnerships

  • Commissioning - the key to NOMS delivery
  • The voluntary and private sector roles - can we learn from the past?
  • The benefits of offender learning - the need to rehabilitate
  • Education and training - the key to offender learning
  • Dealing with the problem of mental health
  • The Carter Review - Have we seen a difference

Helen Edwards, Director General, Criminality & Offender Management , Ministry of Justice (CONFIRMED)

16:10

Special Keynote Address: Enabling a Smarter CJS - Narrowing the Justice Gap

  • Bringing offenders to justice - what needs to be done?
  • Inspiring confidence in communities and transforming the experience of victims and witnesses
  • Building an effective, accessible and seamless CJS - joining up systems through effective IT
  • Strengthening partnerships and cross-CJS working
  • An update on the Criminal Case Management Programme

The Rt. Hon the Baroness Scotland QC, The Attorney General (CONFIRMED)

16:30 Questions & Answers followed by Close of Conference
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