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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Anahita Hossein-Pour

‘Tick box exercise’ over CPS casework quality must ‘fundamentally change’

The Crown Prosecution Service must ‘fundamentally change’ the way it improves the quality of casework, inspectors have said (PA) - (PA Archive)

The Crown Prosecution Service must “fundamentally change” the way it improves the quality of casework which has often been reduced to a “tick box exercise”, inspectors have warned.

An internal system that checks the work of the body responsible for prosecuting criminal cases in England and Wales remained “unchanged” in the seven years since the last inspection, where watchdog chiefs raised concerns over its consistency.

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