Synergizing Collaboration for Modernising Criminal Justice Agencies

In the run-up to Modernising Criminal Justice 2024, we’ve asked our expert speakers to share their thoughts on collaboration in the sector. Speakers were asked, "What role can collaboration between the public and private sectors play in overcoming the financial constraints and resource limitations that pose significant challenges to the modernisation of criminal justice systems?"

Simi O’Neil, Head of Probation Inspection Programme, HM Inspectorate of Probation

There is some valuable learning when the CRCs were delivering services, there are too many hoops and constraints to allow probation services to be flexible and autonomous. 

Rob Marsh, Probation Officer at HMPPS

Collaboration will be vital to enable innovation to thrive and to use the expertise in both private and public sectors, effective partnerships can realise long term goals and the involvement of those with lived experience working both in the public sector and for our partners  will be vital to really understand both the challenges and the actions needed to embed the modernisation everyone is seeking. If the CJS has the appetite to really listen to the voice of lived experience it will, in my view, be far more successful in overcoming the challenges we are likely to face in the coming years. For example embedding new technology, such as an app which is most likely to be successful if developed by the people who have experience of the system. 

Join us for Modernising Criminal Justice 2024 on the 6th of June at the QEII Conference Centre in London, to hear further discussions on the future of probation alongside other key topics and the latest technological advances in the field.