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Criminal Justice System: Data Standards Forum Guidance
Criminal Justice System: Data Standards Forum Guidance
An agreed and designed common data standards are used by the Criminal Justice System, ICT suppliers to support ICT communications between systems used by Criminal Justice Organisations (CJO) to support CJS operations. They are also used with open data standards as defined in the government’s Open Standards Principles. These common standards are also used to support data analytics, bidding for CJS contracts etc.
The selection of the CJS data standards is made by the CJS Data Standards Forum. This is a technical forum which has representatives from the principal CJOs.
There is a Data Standard Catalogue used to support the exchange of criminal justice information between different CJOs.
There are three different types of data standard reflected in the catalogued:
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formatting standards
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organisational structure standards
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reference data standard
The Data Standard catalogue is constantly reviewed by the Data Standards Forum to ensure a set of standards is produced that is as small as possible while still being fit for purpose.
Criminal justice system_ data standards forum guidance - GOV.UK.pdf