Victims of crime will receive additional support following Budget

Victims of crime and specialist RASSO units will be better supported thanks to funding allocated to the CPS from the Budget, confirms the Solicitor General.

The CPS will receive £49 million to support victims of crime and transform the services they provide to the public.

Funding will mean additional staff in CPS’s specialist Rape and Serious Sexual Offence units and further staff to support the ongoing victim transformation programme.

This funding will be a boost in the Government’s pledge to halve violence against women and girls in the next decade, a key element of the wider mission to deliver the safer streets mission.

Further funding will be made available to develop the CPS’s use of new technology to increase productivity, efficiency, and quality in its services. 

Additional funding for CPS is being made available after the government recognised the CPS has been under increasing pressure from the wider criminal justice system, including court backlogs and capacity pressures in our prisons.

The Solicitor General Sarah Sackman KC MP said:

Tackling crime, supporting victims, and strengthening public confidence in the criminal justice system are priorities for me as Solicitor General.

I know that prosecutors will play a vital role in our ambitious missions to halve violence against women and girls in a decade, deliver swifter justice for victims, and double down on knife crime as we make our streets safer for everyone.

That’s why I welcome this budget, which is not only fixing the foundations of our economy, but is focused on rebuilding trust in the criminal justice system too.

Director of Public Prosecutions Stephen Parkinson said: