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Featured: Sentence Reduction for Guilty Pleas
The purpose of this consultation is to invite your views on the way in which the criminal justice system in Northern Ireland deals with reductions in sentence length when a plea of guilty is entered. The law requires a court, when determining a person’s sentence, to take into account any...
Closes 21 July 2025
Open Consultations
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SSPLD Training Survey
Social Security Policy, Legislation and Decision Making Services are undertaking this training survey to help understand your training experience since you joined the directorate. We aim to secure information about what was good about your training experience, what wasn’t so good, and how we can improve the future training experience. The survey is anonymous and the findings of the survey will help inform future training planning. We thank you in anticipation of your valued...
Closes 13 July 2025
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DMS Training Survey
Social Security Policy, Legislation and Decision Making Services are undertaking this training survey to help understand your training experience since you joined the directorate. We aim to secure information about what was good about your training experience, what wasn’t so good, and how we can improve the future training experience. The survey is anonymous and the findings of the survey will help inform future training planning. We thank you in...
Closes 13 July 2025
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Broadcasting of Courts
The consultation is seeking views on proposals to permit the recording and broadcasting of some court proceedings, including judgments and legal exchanges in the Court of Appeal and sentencing remarks in Crown Court cases. The priorities of the Department of Justice (“the Department”), as outlined in its Corporate Plan for 2022-25, include the strategic theme of delivering an effective justice system. One objective under that theme is to make our justice system faster and...
Closes 16 July 2025
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Sentence Reduction for Guilty Pleas
The purpose of this consultation is to invite your views on the way in which the criminal justice system in Northern Ireland deals with reductions in sentence length when a plea of guilty is entered. The law requires a court, when determining a person’s sentence, to take into account any plea of guilty, the reasons or circumstances behind it, and the timing of that plea. Reductions of up to around a third can be applied to what the sentence would otherwise have been, depending on...
Closes 21 July 2025
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Official Statistics Consultation
Analytics Division within the Department for Communities (DfC) is reaching out to users to better understand how the culture, arts, heritage and sport statistics are being used. We are interested in whether the range and type of outputs meet user needs, if any improvements could be made to the reports and views on the proposed changes to the publication schedule. We are interested in your views if you use one or more of the following statistical publications relating to culture,...
Closes 24 July 2025
Forthcoming Consultations
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PBNI Serious Further Offences Survey 2025
The purpose of this survey is to understand staff's perceptions of the organisational culture in relation to Serious Further Offences (SFOs). You will be asked to comment on available support, opportunites to learn and changes in practice resulting from SFOs.
Opens 4 August 2025
Closed Consultations
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Survey of Designated Organisations representatives who attended PCSP Joint Committee workshop in November 2024
Thank you for attending the Joint Committee Designated Organisations workshop at Newforge on 14 November 2024. It would be greatly appreciated if you could provide honest feedback so that we can use this to assess the usefulness of the workshop and whether a further workshop is required. This survey would also like to ascertain if the workshop has changed anything in your partnership working with PCSPs since.
Closed 11 July 2025
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PBNI Content Manager Training Feedback Survey 2025
During 2024/2025, you received Content Manager training, we would like to hear your thoughts on the content and delivery of the training provided in order to identify any areas of improvement that can be made to the delivery of Content Manager training.
Closed 11 July 2025
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Strengthening Inspection Legislation for Schools and Other Education and Training Establishments
Inspection is a critical part of school improvement, of supporting and maintaining the professionalism of our teaching workforce and of providing assurances to the public that our schools and other education and training establishments are providing quality education. It is vital to all learners. The prolonged absence of inspection during the past decade due to its inclusion within Action Short of Strike means many schools have not been identified for the...
Closed 10 July 2025