Consultation on Community Justice Authorities

Introduction

The Consultation Paper is intended to stimulate thought and debate about criminal justice authorities. We want your views to help identify how we can best work together to achive the modern, effective and efficient system we need to reduce reoffending.

The Consultation Paper lists a number of questions relating to each of the main issues. These are reproduced in this response sheet. We would like to know what you think about the issues we have raised. Not all the discussion points will be relevant to everyone and you are, of course, under no obligation to respond to them all. Where you have a view, however, we would like to hear it.

Your Details

Please complete the details below. This will help ensure we handle your response.

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1. Are you reponding as:	An individual (go to 2a) on behalf of a group or organisation (go to 3)

2a. INDIVIDUALS
Do you agree to your response being made available to the public (in SE library and/or on SE website)?	Yes (go to 2b below) No, not at all
2b. Where confidentiality is not requested, we will make your response available to the public on the following basis (please tick one of the following boxes)	Yes, make my response, name and address all available. Yes, make my response and name available, but not my address. Yes, make my response available, but not my name or address.

3. ON BEHALF OF GROUPS OR ORGANISATIONS
Your name and address as respondees will be made available to the public (in the SE library and/or on SE website). Are you content for your response to be made available also?	Yes No

4. ALL RESPONDENTS
We will share your response internally with other SE policy teams who may be addressing the issues you discuss. They may wish to contact you again in the future, but we require your permission to allow them to do so. Are you content for the Scottish Executive to contact you again in the future for consultation or research purposes?	Yes No

QUESTIONNAIRE

FUNCTIONS AND STRUCTURE

1. In your view, which option would form the better basis for the CJA areas?	Four CJAs Six CJAs
2. What do you consider would be necessary to recognise the paticular circumstances faced by Orkney, Shetland and Eilean Siar and assist them in the new CJA landscape?

CONSTITUTION

3. It is proposed that each authority should be represented by one member whose vote would be weighted in relation to the population of the authority on a scale of 1 to 4. Do you agree with these proposals for establishing membership and weighting of voting rights?	Y es No Please provide any comments here:
4. Do you agree that on occasions when a vote is needed to reach a decision, that this should ordinarily be decided by a simple majority?	Yes No Please provide any comments here:
5. Are there issues on which decisions require a larger majority and, if so, what are they? (e.g. Constitutional issues, such as appointment of the Convener or adoption of standing orders; Annual funding allocations of Executive grants; Decisions to pass to the CJA any functions of individual councils.)	Please provide any comments here:

6. You are invited to comment on any practical issues you think may need to be addressed in relation to the appointment of chief officers.

Please provide any comments here:

PARTNER ORGANISATIONS

7. Do you agree the list of partner bodies? (Para 3.1)	Yes No Please enter comments here.
8. Do you agree the definition of voluntary bodies?	Yes No Please enter comments here.
9. Which other agencies do you think should be identified as partner organisations?	Please add comments here.
10. It is intended that guidance should be issued from the Executive in respect of partner bodies. What do you think this guidance in respect of partner bodies should cover?	Please add comments here.

11. How should housing interests be reperesented within the partnerships?

Please add comments here.

12. Are there other bodies which should not be included in a statutory list but which may work with CLAs and should be referred to in any guidance?	Please add comments here.
13. Do you agree non-members should be able to attend and speak at the invitation of the CJA?	Yes No Please enter comments here.
14. If so, should these non-members be restricted to statutory partners or should the CJA have the discretion to include others?	Yes No Please enter comments here.


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