Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of enabling probation staff using the ViSOR database for risk assessment and monitoring purposes in multi-agency public protection arrangements (MAPPA) level cases to transfer information directly to and from probation case management systems.

The existing method for transferring information from the Probation case management system (Delius) must be carried out manually and, as such, Offender Managers use a tick box method for the entry they want to be transferred into ViSOR which is stored in a separate section in Delius. Administrative staff then convert the data into a Word format document for attaching into the ViSOR system.

Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service are currently looking at how this process can be improved between existing Ministry of Justice (MoJ) databases including Delius, OASys (offender assessment system) NOMIS, Mercury, and their successors.