Our reports

This report looks back at Kevin McGinty CBE’s six-year tenure as Chief Inspector of the CPS. It sets out findings from inspections carried out over the past six years and identifies cross-cutting themes.

This report continues our investigation of how the organisations we inspect have responded during the global COVID-19 pandemic.

This inspection examined the effectiveness and efficiency of CPS Complex Casework Units in identifying and managing their casework.

This inspection examined whether the SFO’s complaint handling system delivers a service in line with the guidance for public bodies.

This report provides a cross-system view of how the criminal justice system reacted in the immediate aftermath of the first national Covid-19 lockdown (23 March to 10 May 2020), and of how the system has managed since.

Between October 2019 and February 2020, we inspected the police and Crown Prosecution Service’s (CPS) responses to pre-charge bail changes and the use of released under investigation (RUI).

This inspection is a follow-up to one we reported on in January 2020, looking at the CPS’s handling of the disclosure of unused material in the Crown Court.

This inspection focuses on the controls the CPS has in place to make sure that case information is managed securely and appropriately.

This inspection looks at the effectiveness of the CPS’s communication with victims of crime. It is a follow-up to an inspection report published in November 2018 on the same topic. Since then, the CPS has accepted our recommendations, published an action plan and started taking actions and making changes.

This inspection assesses how much confidence the public can have in the CPS to deliver high quality, effective, fair and timely charging decisions.