Today we have published our Business Plan for 2023/24, setting out the work the Council aims to undertake in the year to March 2024 to meet our statutory objectives and the objectives we set ourselves in our five-year strategy.
This work includes publishing new and revised guidelines for sentencing animal cruelty and motoring offences, perverting the course of justice and witness tampering. The Business Plan also details the draft guidelines we will be consulting on during the year and our evaluation work, which will include reviewing our guidelines covering bladed articles and offensive weapons, intimidatory offences and breach offences, as well as a review of the expanded explanations that accompany some of the guideline factors.