Community Justice Partnership
Community Justice Partnership
Overview
The Community Justice Partnership Outcome Improvement Plan is one of the 11 statutory and strategic plans that sit within the Community Wellbeing Plan. It contributes to the delivery of the Plan’s strategic priorities and outcomes and aligns with the Clackmannanshire Alliance Wellbeing Local Outcomes Improvement Plan.
The Clackmannanshire Community Justice Partnership (CJP) brings together local organisations to improve community justice across Clackmannanshire.
Community justice is about
- preventing offending and re-offending
- supporting people to move away from harmful behaviour
- protecting victims and communities
- promoting safer, stronger communities
The partnership was established under the Community Justice (Scotland) Act 2016 and is responsible for overseeing how community justice is delivered locally.
Our Vision
To embed a human rights based approach to justice that puts the voices of lived experience at the heart of policy and service development.
The Vision for Justice in Scotland (Scottish Government 2022) is based on evidence of what we know works to achieve the long-term outcomes set out. The two key transformation priorities set out in the Vision for Justice in Scotland are
- ensuring justice services embed person centred and trauma informed practices
- working across public services to improve outcomes for individuals, focusing on prevention and early intervention
Signposting
For further information and support, please access the community directory or the Community Interventions and Support Directory - Community Justice Scotland.
Service specifics
The Community Justice Partnership
- publishes annual performance and progress reports
- coordinates statutory partners named in legislation alongside local partners
- embeds a human rights-based and trauma-informed approach to justice
- ensures community justice aligns with the national aims and priority actions in the Scottish Government’s National Strategy for Community Justice (2022)
Partners include:
The Partnership is focused on key priorities:
- Early intervention
- for example, to provide support for issues such as drug and alcohol use and mental health as early as possible
- Whole Systems Approach to justice
- for example, to continue to strengthen a partnership approach based on Community Justice being everyone’s business
- Adopting a trauma-informed approach to community justice
- Identifying and addressing workforce development needs and opportunities
- for example, to ensure that the appropriate level of trauma informed training is embedded for everyone working with people involved in the justice system
- Diversion from the justice system
- Clear and supportive justice pathways
- Increasing public understanding of community justice
Process
As this is a strategic partnership, there is no referral process. Instead
- partners meet regularly to review data and performance
- local priorities are agreed and published in improvement plans
- actions are monitored and reviewed over a 5-year planning cycle
- progress is reported publicly through annual reports
If you are seeking help for yourself or someone else, please contact Justice Services directly.
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