The Home Office sought views on options to support a multi-agency approach to preventing and tackling serious violence. The approach includes options for the introduction of a new legal duty and a non-legislative option for partners to work together...
Northumbria wins prestigious gold national award for custody visiting. Northumbria Independent Custody Visitors Scheme has won a prestigious national award for the quality of its independent custody visiting scheme. The inaugural Independent Custody Visiting Association (ICVA*) Quality Assurance awards...
Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner, Dame Vera Baird has given her support to a letter urging the government to hold an inquiry into how family courts in England and Wales treat victims of abuse. Startling figures show that at...
Dame Vera Baird has been appointed the new Victims’ Commissioner and will take over the role from Baroness Newlove in mid-June 2019. Dame Vera’s responsibilities will include promoting the interests of victims and witnesses, ensuring that their voices are...
Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner, Dame Vera Baird QC, said: “This is welcome news for Northumbria as it will allow us to continue our effective partnership work in deterring young people away from serious and violent crime and enable...
Dame Vera said there was a “public safety issue” that could see serial rapists walk free if victims do not come forward because they don’t want every element of their private life examined. “This is not consent,” she warned....
In February 2019, the House of Commons resolved to establish a committee to join with a committee of the House of Lords to consider the draft bill. This committee sought written evidence on the measures and reforms proposed within...
The Justice Committee held an inquiry into the HMCTS reform programme to consider the progress made with the reform so far and the implications of planned changes, particularly in relation to access to justice. To read the Commissioner’s response,...
Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner, Dame Vera Baird QC, a lawyer by profession has praised progress being made to help achieve greater gender equality in the Criminal Justice System but says there is still a long way to go....
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