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<p>Efforts to better understand and tackle racial disparity in the Criminal Justice
system are typically resourced as part of the mainstream responsibilities for Ministry
of Justice and partner organisations, without dedicated budget(s). As such we have
not been able to isolate the spend requested. Some additional commentary follows.</p><p>
</p><p>On a) per Government’s response to David Lammy’s review of the treatment of
BAME people in the CJS, we remain committed to publishing more and better data to
inform us on issues of racial disparity in the criminal justice system.</p><p> </p><p>On
b) Ministry of Justice is funding a three year programme, the Pre-Application Judicial
Education programme, to support improving judicial diversity at a cost of £300,000
over financial years 2018/19 to 2020/21. The Judicial Appointments Commission also
lead on initiatives to support diversity in the judiciary including outreach events.</p><p>
</p><p>On c) as a matter of course our work on tackling racial disparities engages
with academics and their research.</p><p> </p><p>On d) we have taken a range of steps
to integrate activity to reduce racial disparities within the youth custodial estate
in to the work of establishments and to drive improvements. This includes having dedicated
equalities staff in Youth Offender Institutions and Secure Training Centres. We also
have specific members of staff based at head-quarters, both within the Ministry of
Justice and the Youth Custody Service, who consider the needs of BAME children, develop
and implement improvement initiatives and feed into wider policy and delivery work.
Examples include, the appointment of a Senior Policy Advisor: BAME Development lead
to help address Recommendations 28 and 29 of the Lammy Review, on the recruitment
of BAME staff; the YCS mandating the take-up of unconscious bias training for senior
managers across public sector establishments, the commissioning and introduction of
‘debiasing training’ for key staff; and the inclusion of a problem-solving approach
to complaints (Lammy Review Recommendation 27) in the new Youth Custody Service framework
for behaviour support.</p>
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