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Hundreds of millions of pounds have been wasted on plans to digitise the criminal justice system due to the mismanagement of a key programme that has so far delivered little value to the taxpayer, according to multiple insiders.
The Common Platform Programme (CPP) was supposed to be complete by March 2019. However, a spokeswoman from HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) said the programme will not be complete until 2020 at a revised cost of £270m.
The project began in 2014 with the intention of creating a unified platform across the criminal justice system to allow the Crown Prosecution Service and courts to more effectively manage cases. Programme director Loveday Ryder had described the project as a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity" to modernise the criminal justice system.
But The Register understands that over the last 30 months, a series of independent and internal reviews have documented the programme's failings, with all the key milestones having been missed.
(Score: 2) by turgid on Tuesday April 04 2017, @10:23AM
Digitalisation is a modern nonsense term for "social media" and smartphones in the workspace providing an order of magnitude more opportunities for distraction from getting real work done, while creating little cults where directors and managers can be worshipped by the sycophants and gullible. It's as if the open plan office weren't bad enough, they had to invent something even worse.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].