Eight local Community Justice Authorities (CJAs) have been established to provide a co-ordinated approach to planning and monitoring the delivery of offender services by planning, managing performance and reporting on performance by local authorities or groups of local authorities. Their aim is to target services to reduce reoffending and to ensure close co-operation between community and prison services to aid the rehabilitation of offenders.
Each CJA consists of elected members of local authorities and is supported by a chief officer and a small team of staff. All eight CJAs have been fully operational since April 2007 and can be contacted as follows:
Fife & Forth Valley CJA Room 7
Kilncraigs Business Centre
Greenside Street
Alloa
FK10 1EB 01259 727434 www.ffvcja.co.uk | Glasgow CJA 4th Floor, Westergate
11 Hope Street
Glasgow 0141 287 0196 www.glasgowcja.org.uk |
Lanarkshire CJA Floor 2
Beckford Street
Hamilton
ML3 0AA 01698 454234 www.lanarkshirecja.org.uk | Lothian & Borders CJA Rosetta Road
Peebles
EH45 8HL 01721 726314 www.cjalb.co.uk |
Northern CJA The Annex
Woodhill House
Westburn Road
Aberdeen
AB16 5GB 01224 665780 www.northerncja.org.uk | North Strathclyde CJA
Room 1.5
North Building
Cotton Street
Paisley
PA1 1TZ
0141 840 3237 www.nscja.co.uk |
South West Scotland CJA Suite 6
Sovereign House
Academy Road
Irvine
KA12 8RL 01294 277968 www.swscja.org.uk | Tayside CJA
Floor 7
City House
Overgate
Dundee
DD1 1UH
01382 435394 www.taysidecja.org.uk |
Ongoing work
The CJA Area Plans for the period 2008 - 2011 were approved by Scottish Ministers in December 2007. CJAs are now working with their partner agencies to implement their three year area plan.
Community Service Visibility Projects
Fife and Forth Valley CJA, Glasgow CJA and South West Scotland CJA, with their partners, each carried out a six month project to raise the profile and understanding of community service within their CJA area. The analysis report on the individual projects and findings is now available.
Consultation
A public consultation on the creation of Community Justice Authorities (CJAs) 'Supporting Safer, Stronger Communities' took place in April 2005 and the responses recieved are available via the links below: