Report on findings from the Criminal Quality Assurance Scheme for Criminal Legal Assistance for 2023-24

The latest Annual Report of the Criminal Quality Assurance Scheme (QAS) is published today.

The report sets out the statistics, issues and findings of the Criminal QAS for the period 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024.

The report shows that most peer reviews conducted during the year resulted in a pass, with only one fail.

All follow up reviews were passed, suggesting that the scheme is meeting its dual aims of providing assurance and driving continuous improvement.

The Criminal Quality Assurance Committee sees that part of its role is to help share good practice found in the peer reviews, and areas for improvement to help improve the quality of service given to clients.

The report details of a number of areas of good practice, alongside some recurring issues, with an number of anonymised quotes from the peer review reports to highlight these.

Read the full Criminal QA report

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Please contact:

Kingsley Thomas

Head of Criminal Legal Assistance

Email: thomaski@slab.org.uk.