CJVSF National Policy Engagement

Our role involves working with relevant partners and stakeholders to help them engage with third sector organisations directly, responding to consultations and calls for evidence and participating in relevant meetings and working groups.

CJVSF currently participates in the following working groups at a national level:

• Scottish Government working groups:
  • Justice Recover, Renew and Transform Programme Advisory Board and Sub-Groups
  • Alternatives to Remand Reference Group
  • Funding Review Group
  • Health and Social Care in Prisons Programme Board and workstreams
  • Prison Needs Assessments Research Advisory Group
  • Sustainable Housing On Release for Everyone (SHORE) Standards Steering Group
  • Youth Justice Improvement Board Sub-Groups
• Community Justice Scotland working groups:
  • Community Justice Outcomes Performance and Improvement Framework Review
• Scottish Prison Service working groups:
  • Mental Health and Young Person Workstream
• Cross Party Groups:
  • Cross Party Group on Health Inequalities
  • Cross Party Group on Social Work
  • Cross Party Group on Women, Families and Justice
• Scottish Health in Custody (SHic) Network:
  • Oversight Board
  • Prison Care Core Steering Group
  • Police Care Core Steering Group
• Forensic Network Groups:
  • Forensic Network Advisory Board
  • Forensic Network School Governance Committee
• Other groups:
  • Criminal Justice Social Enterprise Steering Committee
  • Disclosure Scotland: Stakeholder Engagement Panel and Group
  • Supporting Offenders with Learning Disabilities (SOLD) Advisory Group
  • VCSE (Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise) Crime and Policing Stakeholder Forum.
  • SCVO National Intermediaries Network
  • Community Justice Network