30th July 2018
The Department of Justice and Equality have recently released their Data and Research Strategy 2018-2020, designed to support the delivery of “a safe, fair and inclusive Ireland”. The primary objective of the Strategy is to ensure better management, integration and use of knowledge. Key to this is ensuring better collaboration and information sharing between the Department, its Agencies and stakeholders.
The Department’s Data and Research Strategy has six goals:
In order to achieve these goals, some of the actions the Department have identified are:
The Data and Research Strategy also includes a range of research requirements for the Department, which gives direction to the systematic conduct of research to produce quality results and detailed reporting.
The Strategy is welcomed by IPRT. The development of a criminal justice agency data agreement by the DJE is Action 1.2 of our annual ‘Progress in the Penal System’ report.
To read the Strategy, click here.
Respect for rights in the penal system with prison as a last resort.