Background
The strategic justice team in the Care Inspectorate was established in 2018. Since that time we have undertaken a range of justice social work related scrutiny, assurance and improvement activities, often in collaboration with partners.
The Scottish Government also tasked the Care Inspectorate with producing a self-evaluation guide to support quality improvement for community justice in Scotland and to offer support and guidance in using the guide to deliver national and local outcomes. These expectations are published within the Community Justice Performance Framework.
We published an overview report in December 2021. This report provides an overview of the scrutiny and assurance work undertaken between 2018-2021, and summarises the findings from our initial activities.
Our work
Please use the links below for further details on our scrutiny, assurance and improvement work and to access our published reports:
- Community justice social work: inspections of community payback orders
- Community justice partnerships: supported and validated self-evaluation
- Community justice social work: throughcare review
- Joint review of diversion from prosecution
- Thematic review of prison-based social work
- Justice social work: Self-evaluation of performance, quality and outcomes – a national review
- Quality assurance of serious incident reviews
Collaboration work with partners
In addition to our previously noted scrutiny and improvement work, the Care Inspectorate has a long-standing commitment as guest inspectors in inspections of prisons and other institutions led by His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons in Scotland (HMIPS).
Getting involved
We are committed to listening to and hearing from people with living experience during all of our activities. We are also committed to embedding an ethical, person-centred approach that promotes best practice for meaningfully involving people with living experience of the justice system.
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