Community Justice Scotland’s Activity and Community Justice Cases In response to the Committee’s first question, Community Justice Scotland have a range of statutory functions and responsibilities, which are set out in the Community Justice (Scotland) Act 2016. These include: • To promote the national strategy for community justice • To monitor, promote and support improvement in, and keep the Scottish Ministers informed about, performance in the provision of community justice (and in particular, performance in relation to the achievement of the nationally determined outcomes), • To promote and support improvement in the quality and range of provision of community justice and making the best use of the facilities, people and other resources available to provide community justice • To promote public awareness of benefits arising from the use of community disposals rather than imprisonment and of managing and supporting with a view to them not offending in future or, if that is not realistic, reducing future offending by them. • To support the development of learning, development and innovation in relation to community justice and to provide training.