Justice and Community Safety Programme
Part of the Public Services Best Practice and Innovation Network
The justice and community safety programme aims to accelerate innovation by addressing key issues in local and national delivery. It brings together chief officers, directors and senior practitioners from across the criminal justice and community safety systems, service provider and third sectors.
Programme Themes for 2012
- Handling new forms of governance including the new Police Crime Commissioners
- Commissioning and managing the justice marketplace
- Outsourcing and developing commercial skills
- Payment by results
- Neighbourhood Justice
- Delivering even more with even less
- Leadership development, talent management and succession
- Collaboration and partnership across agencies and functions
What does the Programme Include?
- Best practice and innovation groups, focused on key operational and policy issues and typically involving participants at Director or Assistant Director level
- Leaders’ groups, which address longer-term issues of public service reform and are attended by Chief Executives or their Deputies
Additional activities include:
- Focus projects, which examine a particular issue in more depth, usually over a period of several months. In each case, we produce written outputs, which are agreed by all the participants before being made available to the wider ITW network via our online knowledge store.
Programme Benefits
- Activities are on an appropriate scale for rich, in-depth exchanges between senior people (often involving no more than 15-20) in an extended board room format, allowing everyone to contribute, unlike ‘talking head’ conferences
- Events are specifically designed to draw on the knowledge and experience of the participants, ensuring the group can focus on practical solutions to common issues
- A skilled facilitator, with experience in both the public and commercial sectors, steers the sessions carefully for the benefit of all participants
- Operating under the Chatham House rule means that participants are able to express themselves freely, leading to an open, challenging and high-quality exchange
- There is no charge for public sector members, who support the programmes by actively contributing their time, expertise and experience
- Network activities are funded by private sector members who recognise the benefits of having an independent forum where the realities of public service reform can be explored and their understanding deepened
- There are no sales pitches. Everyone is expected to contribute to finding innovative solutions to real business issues
- In order to maintain our independence, ITW does not facilitate one-to-one meetings or similar contacts between members. Nor do we sell on any of our contact information
