3.3 The Auld Report identified the lack of common IT as one of the main impediments to achieving better overall management of the criminal justice system. It made a number of recommendations for improving IT systems (Figure 18).
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| 92 | The Government should ensure, as a matter of urgency, routine provision, through an integrated system of IT or otherwise, of complete and accurate information of a defendant's criminal record at all allocation hearings. | Accepted. The Government is proposing to take this forward as it works towards improving IT systems across the criminal justice system.
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| 137 | The Criminal Justice Board should discontinue the IBIS project of linking up the six main information technology systems in the criminal justice system, and should instead, within a set timescale, produce an implementation plan for an integrated information technology system for the whole of the criminal justice system based upon a common language and common electronic case files. | Rejected. The Government's preferred approach is to join together existing and developing IT systems in a staged development, working towards improving IT systems across the criminal justice system.
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| 138 | The implementation of an integrated system of information technology should be organised in six projects, to run either in parallel or sequentially, namely: case tracking; management information; unification of data; extending the categories of user; case management; and unification of enabling technologies. | Accepted. |
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| Source: Auld Report "Review of the Criminal Courts of England and Wales" and the Government White Paper "Justice for all" | ||