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Abbreviation	Definition	Info
102PF	102 Petty France	London headquarters of the Ministry of Justice
1LS/2LS/3LS	1st, 2nd or 3rd Line Support
A&A	Advice and assistance	The legal aid means test in the crime context has slightly different rules depending on whether it is to pay for 'advice and assistance' (A&A) or 'advocacy assistance' (AA)
A&CA	Audit & Corporate Assurance	Internal Audit & Standards Audit Unit - See GIAA
A&O	Accommodation and Occupancy (also known as *AO*)	An table of data, extracted from the NOMIS database providing a row per prisoner, including basic personal details and their location
A2J	Access to Justice
AA	Administrative Assistants	in context of PVB
AA	Advocacy assistance	The legal aid means test in the crime context has slightly different rules depending on whether it is to pay for 'advice and assistance' (A&A) or 'advocacy assistance' (AA)
AAC	Administrative Appeals Court
Acas	Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service	(Note: only an initial cap.) Aims to prevent and resolve employment disputes prior to employment tribunals.
ACCT	Assessment, Care in Custody and Teamwork	Self-Harm system - replacement for 2052Sh Self-harm system.
ACL	Access Control List
ACO	Assistant Chief Officer (Probation)	An Assistant Chief Officer (ACO) is a strategic manager responsible for the delivery of Offender Management within Probation.
ACPO	Association of Chief Police Officers
ACR	Automatic Conditional Release
AD	Active Directory
ADA	Added Days Awarded	Days that are added to an offenders release date following an adjudication
ADI	Application Desktop Integrator	Spreadsheet containing total disbursement of a prison, sent from business hub to regional accounts team.#moneyToPrisoners
Admin 4 database		An Excel file that has Police Station & Mags Court schemes on
ADP	Advocate Defence Payments	One of our projects for the Legal Aid Agency. where advocates (solicitors) can submit invoices for work done for legal aid work.Used to be known as CBO/Crime Billing Online
ADR	Alternative dispute resolution	A method of resolving disputes outside court - for example, via mediation
ADR	Architectural design record
AEP	Accelerated Encryption Processing
AFD	Agency Framework Document	NOMS framework
AFK	Away From Keyboard
AGFS	Advocate Gradual Fees Scheme	Fee scheme available to Barristers who work on Crown Court cases
AIS	Acceptance Into Service
AJAS	Access to Justice Analytical Services
AJTC	Administrative Justice Tribunals Council
ALB	Arm's-length body	An organisation that pretends it's independent from government, even though it's not, really.With apostrophe and hyphen when spelled out in full.
Alfresco	A document management system. Used by the courts
ALM	Application Lifecycle Management
ALS	Action Learning Set
AMI	Amazon Machine Image
AO	Accommodation and Occupancy (also known as *A&O*)
AO	Accounting Officer	Each organisation in central government must have an Accounting Officer, which is usually the senior official in the organisation.Accounting Officers must be able to assure Parliament and the public of high standards of probity in the management of public funds.The Treasury maintains policy oversight throughout. Departments and organisations should notify the Treasury Officer of Accounts, in advance, of any changes to Accounting Officer designations. There should be no gap between one Accounting Officer leaving and another being appointed.
AO	Administrative Officer
AOB	Any Other Business
AOS	Acknowledgement of Service	Document filed by a defendant confirming they've been served court documents.
AP	Approved Premises
AP	Analytical Platform
APD	Approved Parole Date
API	Application Programming Interface
APPG	All Party Parliamentary Group	APPGs are informal cross-party groups that have no official status within Parliament. They are run by and for Members of the Commons and Lords, though many choose to involve individuals and organisations from outside Parliament in their administration and activities.
APVS	Assisted Prison Visit Scheme	Also known as HWPV (Help With Prison Visits)
APVU	Assisted Prison Visits Unit	A call centre for prison visits for 8 prisons in the west midlands.
ARD	Automatic Release Date
ARMS	Active Risk Management System
ART	Aggression Replacement Training	Violence Programme (no longer running).
ARV	Alcohol Related Violence	Substance Misuse Programme (no longer running).
ASBO	Anti-Social Behaviour Order	A court order which can be obtained by local authorities in order to restrict the behaviour of a person likely to cause harm or distress to the public.
ASPIRE	Assess – Sentence Plan – Implement – Review – Evaluate	This is the core framework of offender management / sentence planning
ASRO	Addressing Substance Related Offending	Substance Misuse Programme (no longer running).
Asset	Youth Justice Board assessment documentation for young people
AT	Assisted Technology
ATIA	Architecture, Technology and Information Assurance	A former unit inside MOJ ICT
ATM	At The Moment
ATO	Authority to operate
ATOS	Multinational Company - often involved in consultancy or healthcare	See URL
ATR	Alcohol Treatment Requirements
AWDL	Average Working Days Lost
AWS	Amazon Web Services
BAFO	Best And Final Offer
BAME	Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic
BASS	Bail Accommodation Support Services	BASS provides short-term accommodation and support to men and women, aged 18 and over, in shared and self-contained houses/flats across England and Wales. Now replaced by CAS2.
BAU	Business as Usual
BBR	Building Better Relationships	An intervention programme for adult male offenders who have been violent in heterosexual relationships
BCS	Basic Custody Screening
BCST	Basic Custody Screening Tool	An assessment tool used for the management of offenders at the point they begin a custodial sentence.
BDG	Business Development Group
BEIS	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy	Merger between Department of Business, Innovation and Skills and the Department of Energy and Climate Change
BI	Business Intelligence
BIA	Business Impact Assessment	An assessment template/matrix used by a business owner to determine impact levels of data / systems that they own. Questions like "how many people will be affected if your data is unavailable for a day".
BIAR	Business Intelligence ARchive	'Basically a proprietary zip file used to move Business Intelligence content from one BusinessObjects Enterprise Server to another'
BIC	Belief in Change	General Offending Programme (no longer runningG).
BIL#	Business Impact Level [number]	Often pronounced "aisle two", "aisle zero" etc.Information has an impact level, not a whole system. eg p-Nomis is IL3 is wrong.specific information about prisoners will have business impact 3 if made publicAll revised with the new Official criteria
BIP	Business Intelligence Platform
BIS	Department for Business Innovation & Skills
BLB / ABLB	Better Lives Booster / Adapted Better Lives Booster	Sex Offender Treatment Programme (no longer running).
BNM	Becoming New Me	General offending programme – thinking skills programme for those with learning disability
BOP	Bring on Potential	Education and Learning gained inside are recorded in BOP, which is available ‘through the gate’. Part of ILP (Individual Learning Plan)
BOTUS	Breach of Top Up Supervision	Info
BPSS	Baseline Personnel Security Standard	The minimum level of clearance for someone working in the Civil Service.
BSE	Basic, Standard & Enhanced	The various levels of prison regime
BSR	Building Skills for Recovery	Substance misuse programme
BVLS	Book a video link service
BWVC	Body Worn Video Camera
C&R	Control & Restraint	Prison
CA	Case Administrators
CAB	Citizen's Advice Bureau	Charity, funded largely by central and local government, that provides a one-stop non-specialist advice on many different issues.They have their own triage process on the front desk, which will help you get an appointment - possibly a fortnight away.Some are first-come-first-served, so there are big queues outside each morning.
CAFCASS	Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service
CAIT	Child Abuse Investigation Team
CAIT	Child Arrangements Information Tool	Information resources to help separating couples make arrangements (custody, etc.) for their children.
CALM	Controlling Anger and Learning to Manage it	Violence Programme (no longer running).
can	denotes both capability and possibility	Formal term from UK Government Orange Book: Management of Risk - Principles and Concepts.
CARAT	Counselling, Assessment, Referral, Advice, Throughcare	CARAT workers are intermediaries between drug treatments providers and the prisoners themselves
CARATs	Counselling, Assessment, Rehabilitation, Advice & Through care
CARE	Choices, Actions, Relationships, Emotions	Violence Programme
CARM	Civil Automatic Referral to Mediation	A process automatically referring some Civil cases to mediation.
CAS	Case Allocation System	Used after sentencing to assign offender as NPS or CRC
CAS-2	The Community Accommodation Service, Tier 2	A contracted service which provides short-term accommodation for those who have no suitable accommodation and may otherwise be held in custody.
CaseMan	Civil Case Management legacy system	The case management system formerly used by HMCTS services
CATS	Case Assessment and Tracking System	.NET application written and used by CFO at Daresbury Park in Warrington for managing externally funded (historically ESF) programmes
CBDT	Compact Based drug testing	Formerly known as Voluntary Drug Testing
CBO	crime billing online
CC	Carbon Copy
CCBC	County Court Bulk Centre	Set up by HM Courts & Tribunals Service specifically to deal with straightforward debt collection work which, in the main, is undefended. In Northampton.
CCCD	Claim for Crown Court Defence	Legal Aid Agency project where advocates (solicitors) can submit invoices for work done for legal aid work. Project formerly known as ADPproject formerly known as CBO
CCLF	Crown Court Litigator Fee	LAA web app that manages LGFS (Litigators Graduated Fee Scheme) claims.
CCM	Commercial Contract Management
CCMCC	County Court Money Claims Centre
CCMD	Commercial and Contract Management Directorate
CCMS	Client Cost Management System	LAA ERP app to replace CIS, including financial modules to manage the LAA fund. Covers all civil certificated work (i.e. civil legal representation). Allows providers to make online legal aid applications and manage cases. Allows providers and advocates to submit bills online. Allows providers and advocates to scan and upload supporting documents electronically. Allows clients to pay us in new ways, such as credit and debit cards, payment reference cards and via direct debit. CCMS has been mandatory for all civil case types since 1 April 2016. In addition, Acts as the financial accounting system of reference for LAA General Ledger, Accounts Paytable, Accounts Receivable and is the system that actually makes payments to providers, and manages interactions with 3rd party Debt Recovery for CCMS cases.
CCO	Call Centre Officer	Call centre officer of DSCC
CCP	Corporate Change Portfolio
CCPU	Corruption, Crime and Policing Unit
CCQ	Check if your client qualifies for legal aid	LAA web app for legal providers to work out if a potential client meets the means test (financial eligibility) for legal aid
CCR	Crown Court Remuneration	LAA web app that manages AGFC (Advocate Gradual Fee Scheme) claims. Feeds into LAA data warehouse.
CCR	Court Custody Records
CCRC	Criminal Cases Review Commission
CCRN	Court Case Reference Number	This is a unique reference number assigned to a new occurrence of a court case created on PNC. The CCRN is held by CJSE but may not be held by court systems relevant to all court types and may be used to identify cases in civil crown magistrates courts etc. Will be held in CJSE sent from Police Case systems.
CCS	Crown Commercial Service
CDA	Court data adaptor
CDC	Change Data Capture
CDC	Change Directorate Committee
CDCS	Change Data Capture Staging	LAA Oracle database for capturing data from CCMS & CIS and moving to EDW for CCMI. No longer exists.
CDD	Criminal Defence Direct	Telephone adviser run by a few provides. New tendering process will be started and new structure and providers will be in place in April 2016.
CDE	Common Data Extract	A report of all offenders in NOMIS with lots of data about them. Also known as ‘offloc’ (offender location report). The CDE is used to transfer offender data to other NOMS/MOJ systems (like Mercury) and to other agencies (like the police).
CDM	HMPPS Contract Delivery Manager
CDO	Chief Digital Officer
CDPs	Crime & Drugs Partnership
CDT	Central Drafting Team	In referance to ministerial correspondence
CDVP	Community Domestic Violence Programme	Domestic Violence Programme (no longer running).
CEMLI	Configuration, Extension, Modification, Localisation and Integration
CEO	Court enforcement officer
CESG	Communications-Electronics Security Group	Part of GCHQ that provides policy and assistance on digital security.
CFE	Check Financial Eligibility	A non-user facing service which calculates an applicant’s financial eligibility using data entered through Apply. This includes information on an applicant’s income and outgoings, and calculations include a range of different things in accordance with legal aid regulation based on what information is entered.
CFO	Creating Future Opportunities	The name of a group within HMPPS who manage external funding (such as that from the ESF). Offices located in Daresbury Warrington.
CFO	HMPPS Co-Financing Organisation	The Co-Financing Organisation has delivered services to offenders in custody and the community since January 2010. Services are delivered via contracted prime providers
CFT	Civil, Family and Tribunals	The name of a directorate in HMCTS.
CGI	Conseillers en Gestion et Informatique	CGI stands for Conseillers en Gestion et Informatique in French, which translates to 'Information Systems and Management Consultants', in English. However, the official English meaning is 'Consultants to Government and Industry'.The company was formerly known as Logica, and designed the current (as of 19 April 2013) infrastructure for Money Claim Online and Possession Claim Online.Can also stand for 'computer-generated imagery'.
CHAPS	Correspondence Handling And Processing System
Chromis	Chromis	Violence Programme (no longer running).
CHS	Case Handling System	Set of applications used by the Civil Legal Aid Operator Contact Centre and Specialist Legal Providers to manage Civil Legal Aid cases opened by members of the public in England and Wales.
CICA	Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority	"We deal with compensation claims from people who have been physically or mentally injured because they were the victim of a violent crime in England, Scotland or Wales."
CIPD	Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development
CIRASS	Community Interventions, Residential and Accommodation Support Service
CIS	Corporate Information System	LAA thick client app for legacy legal aid case management. It handles legacy cases for civil certificated work (i.e. civil representation) Internal system only (no provider facing functions). Also used for other work unrelated to civil and family certificated work. Intention is to decommission this system when it is practical.
CJA	Criminal Justice Act	CJA 1991 & 2003
CJAS	Criminal Justice Analytical Service
CJG	Criminal Justice Group
CJH	Criminal Justice Hub	A free information resource for the criminal justice community in England & Wales.
CJIT	Criminal Justice Information Technology
CJS	Criminal justice system	An expression that covers the delivery of justice in relation to crime, across multiple organisations. Includes the likes of: law enforcement, lawyers, CPS, courts, prisons and probation. See also https://www.cps.gov.uk/about-cps/criminal-justice-system. Style guide: it's not really a proper noun, so don't use caps. Never abbreviate.
CJSE	Criminal Justice Secure Exchange	Related to CJSM, this is a pipe for sending data and files (rather than email) between police, CPS and courts. Often used for submitting cases to be prosecuted, and the charging decisions leading up to them.It supports a few standards:(1) EXISS is a one-way interface. If the case is duff, CPS have to phone/email Police to give feedback and get it sent again.(2) TWIF/EXISS2 is a two-way interface which allows CPS to send secure messages back.TWIF supports charging decisions being sent as structured data. Most other documents are sent as a set of Word docs or PDFs.Digital Case File is a standard devised by CPS for sending the contents of the various case forms as structured data rather than word docs, hidden as a JSON payload alongside other documents being transferred anyway. Ultimately the 'sending' part will be replaced by publishing and permissions.
CJSM	Criminal Justice Secure Mail	A secure email platform, used for conveying sensitive information between users in organizations across the criminal justice system. In addition, the security assurance process drives up security standards across the sector.
CJX	Criminal justice eXtranet	links police pnn network to other govt networks
CLA	Civil Legal Advice	CLA is a service provided to the general public in England and Wales where users can obtain free legal advice from specialist legal providers relating to a range of Civil matters. This is subject to the user’s matter being within scope of the service and the user passing the means eligibility test. The advice can either be given via telephone or in person depending upon the client’s unique circumstances.
CLA	Civil Legal Aid
CM	Custodial Manager	A Band 5 prison officer. 3 stripes on their epaulettes
CMAC	Court Martial Appeals Court
CMT	Contract Management Team
CNA	certified normal accommodation	Relating to prison capacity: "the good, decent standard of accommodation that the service aspires to provide all prisoners"
CNA	Certified Normal Accommodation	The Prison Service's measure of accommodation, CNA represents the good, decent standard of accommodation that the services aspires to provide all prisoners.
CO	Community Order
COACD	Court of Appeal Criminal Division
COBR	Cabinet Office Briefing Room
CoCo	Code of Connection	Usually associated with the PSN. An agreed standard ('code') for network communication.
COE	Center of Excellence	Microsoft Power Platform management tooling
Cohort, ‘Core Cohort’	Prisoners who are lower risk and assigned to a Key Worker and CRC
Cohort, ‘Specialised Cohort’	Prisoners who are higher risk and are assigned to Key Worker and a Prison Offender Manager (POM)
COM	Community Offender Managers	A role within the National Probation Service
COM	Court Operations Manager
COM-B	Capability, Opportunity, and Motivation Behaviour
COPs	Contracted Out Prisons	Privately run establishments
Core SOTP	Core Sex Offender Treatment Programme	Sex Offender Treatment Programme (no longer running).
COTS	Commercial off-the-shelf	software; as opposed to custom build
COVAID	Control of Violence for Angry Impulsive Drinkers	Substance Misuse Programme
CP	Common Platform	Service provided by HMCTS, used by LAA to find criminal hearing information
CP	Cloud Platform	The MoJ Cloud Platform is a modern hosting platform for digital services
CP	Core Programme	Sex Offender Treatment Programme (no longer running).
CPA	Contract Package Area	Refers to the geographic area a CRC is responsible for
CPIG	Crown Prosecution Inspectorate Group	Fire Safety
CPM	Child Protection Management
CPO	Chief Probation Officer
CPO	Community Probation Officer
CPO	Community Punishment Order
CPP	common platform project
CPR	Civil Procedure Rule	A rule covering how Civil litigation proceeds in the courts.
CPR	Civil Procedure Rules
CPR	Criminal Procedure Rules
CPRC	Civil Procedure Rule Committee
CPS	Crown Prosecution Service	The organisation that is responsible for providing the prosecution in criminal cases in England and Wales.
CPS	Crown Prosecution Service	The CPS prosecutes criminal cases that have been investigated by the police and other investigative organisations in England and Wales.
CPT	Custodial Performance Tool	Replaced by Prison Performance Tool (PPT)
CR	Change Request
CRAMS	Case Reporting And Management System	Offender caseload data (Probation)
CRB	Criminal Records Bureau	Replaced by the DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service)
CRC	Community Rehabilitation Company	Organisations that will deliver probation services from 2014, replacing probation trusts.
CRD	Conditional Release Date
CRE	Commission for Racial Equality
CRED	Civil Representation Expenditure Data Warehouse	MI system holding civil case expenditure data extracted from CIS.CRED data is held in the EDW database - STAGEX schema owns the code and staging tables, FED schema owns the warehouse tables.
CRL	Childcare Resettlement License	a type of ROTL
CRM12		An Excel form to apply to Rota. A spread sheet that contains solicitors information * All crime forms in LAA are called CRM
CRN	Case Reference Number	The number assigned to a offender in nDelius - the word case is misleading
CRO	Community Responsible Officer	Equivalent of a Community Offender Manager but in CRCs
CRO	criminal records office	unique number once convicted (police)
CRO	Community Rehabilitation order
CRP	Conference Room Pilot
CRS	Commissioned Rehabilitative Services	Rehabilitation and resettlement interventions procured through the Dynamic Framework - the mechanism to procure rehabilitation and resettlement interventions in regional areas
CS	Case Supervisor
CSAAP	Correctional Services Accreditation and Advice Panel
CSAT	Customer Satisfaction
CSB	Cognitive Skills Booster	General Offending Programme (no longer running).
CSC	Close Supervision Centre	Also known as Segregation unit, Seg, Solitary Confinement & SCU
CSC	Central Services Centre
CSCP	Cognitive Self Change Programme	Violence Programme (no longer running).
CSG	Corporate Services Group	Part of MOJ led by director general Matthew Coats which includes Estates, ICT, HR, Shared Services and Digital Services.
CSIP	Challenge Support Intervention Plan	CSIP is a process used in prisons to support and manage prisoners who pose an increased risk of being violent. It is aimed at supporting those individuals who are considered to pose a raised risk of harming others through their behaviour in custody.
CSL	Civil Service Learning	Training courses for civil servants.
CSOGP	Community Sex Offender Group Programme	Sex Offender Treatment Programme (no longer running).
CSR	Civil Service Resourcing	The previous name for the Government Recruitment Service (GRS)
CSR	Corporate Staff Rostering	A system used in prisons to detail staff. Also known as My Detail or InVision WFM
CSRA	Cell Share Risk Assessment	This is a priority assessment done when prisoners are received at prison, to ensure risks are reduced to them and others on their first night and beyond
CSV	Community Service Volunteer
CTC	Counter Terrorism Clearance	a security clearance level, as seen in the Tech Scorecard : "Anyone with administrative or operational access to production systems... has CTC-level clearance"
CTS	Core Technology Services team
CTSA2021	Counter Terrorism and Sentencing Act 2021
CTSC	Courts and Tribunals Service Centre
CUI	Citizen UI	Frontend design pattern used for public-facing transactional services at HMCTS
Custody Assistant	subcontracted staff in custody
Custody Officer	police staff
CVCC	Court Video Conference Centre
CVL	Create and Vary a Licence
CVP	Cloud Video Platform	CVP is an internet-based video meeting service used for court or tribunal headings.
CWA	Contracted Work and Administration	LAA web app for managing providers and their contracted work. Billing system (for civil legal help and crime lower) that contains all provider contracts and schedules. Enables commissioning teams to manage their providers’ contracts and schedules. Is provider facing. Interfaces with CCMS to supply 'master record of the truth' of provider contract and contact details. Also does work in provisioning new provider user details to CCMS.
CWX		Civil debt recovery service. Legacy debt management app, hosted external.
D.Y.O.	Deter Young Cohort Offender
DAAT	Drugs & Alcohol Action Team
DAC	Digital Accessibility Centre	A org who do accessibility testing and consultancy on digital services
DACU	Data Access and Compliance Unit
DAL	Delegation Authority Letter	A document indicating that the bearer has authority to delegate responsibility for a government bank account to SSCL.
DARTS	Digital Audio Recording and Transcription Service	System for recording courts and allowing transcription agencies to listen to and upload transcriptions.
DARU	Data Assurance Reporting Unit
DASD	Data & Analytical Services Division
DASHRAS	Data Science And HR Analytical Services
DASO	Domestic Abuse Safety Officers	Domestic Abuse Safety Officers (DASOs) are embedded as part of regional Interventions teams within the Probation Service. DASOs support victims of domestic abuse once the perpetrator has been sentenced at court to participate in a Building Better Relationships accredited programme, as a condition attached to their Probation Order. DASOs provide a vital service to their clients, including any new partners who may be at risk, and work collaboratively with Probation practitioners and agencies to promote safety and manage risk. The DASO team have recently undergone a change in role title to better reflect the nature of their work; having been known previously as Partner Link Workers.
DBS	Defence Business Services
DBS	Disclosure and Barring Service	Organisation that maintains records and helps determine if someone should be prevented from working in a regulated activity, for example working with children.
DCA	Department for Constitutional Affairs	Became MOJ when joined with NOMS in 2007.
DCF	Digital Case File	An attempt at creating end-to-end digital/modern justice system from Police -> Crown Prosecution Service -> Courts -> Prisons -> Probation
DCMF	Designed, Constructed, Managed & Financed
DCR	Discretional Conditional Release
DD	Deputy Director
DDA	Disability Discrimination Act 1995
DDaT	Digital, Data and Technology
DDC	Deputy Director of Custody	regional responsibilty for a group of prisons
DDC	Digital Document Conversion
DDDCC	Data Driven Department and Culture Change
DDJ	Deputy District Judge	A judge who sits for between 15 to 50 days a year in the County Courts
DF	Delegated Functions	Where legal providers, in limited circumstances, are authorized by LAA to assess eligibility for legal aid *themselves*, enabling them to proceed with work on the case, and notify the LAA in the following few days
DFD	Data Flow Diagram
DfE	Department for Education	The DfE is responsible for children's services and education, including higher and further education policy, apprenticeships and wider skills in England.
DG	Data Gateway	A central governance structure and process to regulate the collection of data across HMPPS
DGAB	Data Governance Assurance Board
DHSC	Department of Health and Social Care	The Department of Health and Social Care leads, shapes and funds health and social care in England.
DIB	Divisional Implementation Board
DIC	death in custody
DID	Drink Impaired Drivers	Substance Misuse Programme
DIP	Drug Intervention Programme	A high-profile strategy for tackling drugs and reducing crime.
Dip sampling	A quality control process used by police forces in which a representative proportion of files are selected and inspected
DISC	Development, Innovation and Support Contracts	Shared services framework - Atos (infrastructure), CGI (formerly LogicaCMG - applications) supporting Dom1
DISO	Digital Infrastructure Security Operations
DIWG	Data Integrity Working Group	Looking at data and/or recording issues in Probation
DJ	District Judge	Judges dealing with most cases in the County Courts
DLP	Data Loss Prevention
DOM	Director of Offender Management
DOM1/Dom1	Domain 1	End-user compute and networking solution
DPA	Data Protection Act
DPIA	Data Protection Impact assessment
DPR	Digital Prison Reporting
DPRRD	Detention Post Recall Release Date
DPS	Digital Prison Services	Previously known as 'New NOMIS'
DPS	Dynamic Purchasing System	Not unique to MoJ - it's a way that Governors can purchase additional education or work provision on site, outside of the standard education contracts. Some stakeholders may be more familiar with this definition of DPS rather than 'Digital Prison Services'
DQ	Directions Questionnaire	Form sent to claimants and defendants in small claim cases so the judge can give instructions
DQ	Data Quality
DR	Defence Request	Formally DSDS.
DR	Disaster Recovery
DRA	Digital Reference Architecture	The enterprise architecture view of HMCTS
DRR	Drug Rehabilitation Requirement
DRY	Don't Repeat Yourself	Often "DRY-ed". Removing duplication in code.
DS	Digital Services	MOJ Digital Services (formally DSD)
DSA	Data Sharing Agreement
DSA	Data Standards Authority	The DSA works to improve how the public sector manages data. The DSA does this by establishing standards to make it easier and more effective to share and use data across government.
DSCC	Defence Solicitor Call Centre	The call centre service that police use to provide a solicitor for people in custody.
DSD	Digital Service Designers
DSD	Digital Services Division	Now obsolete. Please refer to 'Digital Services' (without the 'Division') or 'MOJ Digital Services'.
DSDS	Defence Solicitor Deployment Service
DSF	Digital Services Framework	A framework for procuring software development teams across government
DSG	Digital Steering Group
DSO	Defence & Security Organisation
DSO	Deskside Support Officer
DSO	Digital Studio Operations	Slack Channel - #ask-digital-studio-ops
DSOs	Departmental Strategic Objectives
DSRG	Data Standards Reporting Group
DSS	Data Security Standard	An accreditation for handling credit/debit cards managed by Payment Card Industry (PCI).
DST	Designated Search Team
DTCs	Democratic Therapeutic Communities	General Offending Programme
DTO	Detention Training Order
DTRG	Digital Technology Review Group
DTTO	Drug Treatment and Testing Orders
DV	Developed Vetting	Level of Security Clearance
DV	Domestic Violence	Defined as any incident of threatening behaviour, violence or abuse between adults who are or have been intimate partners or family members, regardless of gender or sexuality.
DWP	Department for Work and Pensions	Government organisation - administrates ESF budget ellocation
DX	Document Exchange	DX, or Direct Exchange, is a private business-to-business mail and packaging network in the United Kingdom. Direct Exchange is cheaper than standard first class mail. Subscriptions are necessary to use this service.
DYOI	Detention in a Young Offender Institution
E3	Effectiveness, Efficiency and Excellence	The change programme that will design and implement a new operation model for the National Probation Service
EAP	Employee Assistance Programme	The HMPPS Employee Assistance Programme is a free and confidential service available to all HMPPS staff who need advice and support.
EAT	Employment Appeal Tribunal
EBS	E-Business Suite	An Oracle Application for Business. Utilised by LAA for CCMS and CWA.
ECHR	European Convention on Human Rights	An international treaty to protect human rights and fundamental freedoms in Europe.
ECL	End of Custody Licence	A scheme within Prison Service between 2007 and 2010 to help alleviate pressures on prison population. Offenders who were eligible could be released early from custody 18 days before their release date
ECS	Elastic Container Service
ECSL	End of Custody Supervised Licence	A scheme within Prison Service first implemented on 17 October 2023, operating in 21 prisons and is a temporary measure in response to the current pressure on some prisons. Its use is targeted, and it will only operate in certain areas for a limited period of time.
EDM	Exceptional Delivery Model
EDR	Earliest Date of Release
EDRMS	Electronic Documents and Record Management System	Also known as NorthgateLAA's externally hosted document/record management system, used by CCMS.
EDS	Extended Determinate Sentence
EDS	Electronic Data Systems	The private contractor providing the new IT infrastructure throughout the Prison Service as per the QUANTUM Project
EDS100	Extended Determinate Sentence imposed for certain Terrorism Offences
EDW	Enterprise Data Warehouse	Management Information data warehouse. Holds data from many LAA applications.
EFE	Estimate Financial Eligibility	An example is LAA estimate financial eligibility for legal aid
EGS	Enhanced Gate Security	EGS refers to the installation of X-ray baggage scanners, archway metal detectors (sometimes referred to as a ‘portal’) and hand-held metal detector wands.
EM	Electronic Monitoring	(Also known as 'tagging') is the practice of attaching a tag to someone's ankle, used in England and Wales to monitor curfews and conditions of a court or prison order.
EM	Escort Manager
EMAP	Email a Prisoner
EMED	Electronic Monitoring Eligibility Date
EMI	Electronic Management Information	LAA web app that allows LAA to share MI data with providers. Currently used for financial statement.
EMS	Electronic Monitoring Services	The organisation responsible for the delivery of Electronic Monitoring.
EMT	Equalities Monitoring Tool
EOI	Expression of Interest	Recruitment method that can sometimes be utilised. Ie. filling short term vacancies with internal staff
EP	Extended Programme	Sex Offender Treatment Programme (no longer running).
EPDQ	Electronic Post Data Quickly transaction	Electronic payments service used within some HMCTS services
EPICK	Event, Problem, Incident, Continual Service Improvement and Knowledge Team
EQUIP	Excellence and Quality in Probation Processes
ERMP	Exceptional Regime Management Plan
ERP	Enterprise Resource Planning
ERS	Early Removal Scheme
ERSED	Early Removal Scheme Eligibility Date
ESA	Employment and Support Allowance	You can apply for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) if you have a disability or health condition that affects how much you can work.
ESED	Effective Sentence End Date
ESF	European Social Fund	Provides funding via the CFO to provide additional services to offenders
ESL	Effective Sentence Length	Representation of sentence length as a single period term
ESOL	English for Speakers of Other Languages
ESPP	Extended Sentence for Public Protection
Estyn	the office of His Majesty's Inspectorate for Education and Training in Wales
ET	Employment Tribunal	Also stands for 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial', a 1982 sci-fi movie about a loveable alien.
ETD	Early Transfer Date for Detention and Training Orders (DTO)
ETE	Education, Training & Employment
ETL	Extract, Transform & Load
ETS	Enhanced Thinking Skills	A course that prisoner can do to to address the attitudes and thought patterns that may of contributed to their offending
Ex-ASP	Ex-Armed Service Personnel
ExCo	Executive Comity Board	Permanent Secutary and Director Generals (6 of).
EXHIBIT	See XHIBIT
Exhibit	Database co-ordinated by Crown Courts
EXISS	Exchange Integration Services Stream
Extradition	only registered solicitor can go
ExUI	Expert UI	Common component providing a user interface to HMCTS staff and solicitors
F2050	prisoner core record	protected characteristics and case information
FALA	Find a legal advisor	Public-facing service that allows people to find a legal advisor who holds a contract with the LAA
FaSO	Family and Significant Other
FCA	Financial Conduct Authority	The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is a financial regulatory body in the United Kingdom, but operates independently of the United Kingdom government, and is financed by charging fees to members of the financial services industry.
FCO	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
FCOS	Foreign and Commonwealth Office Services	A trading fund of the FCO. Providers of IL2 and IL3 web hosting
FDR	Fast Delivery Report
FiAP	Find a Prisoner service
FITS	Future IT Sourcing Programme	or is the S 'sourcing'? Yes
FLO	Family Liaison Officer
FMB	Functional Mailbox
FMI	Five Minute Intervention	Prisons
FNC	First Night Centre	Prisons
FNP	Foreign National Prison or Foreign National Prisoner	Prisons
FOCUS	FOCUS	Substance Misuse Programme (no longer running).
FOI	Freedom of Information	The Freedom of Information Act 2000 created a public 'right of access' to information held by public authorities.
FOR	Focus on Resettlement	General Offending Programme (no longer running).
FPMF	FITS Programme Management Framework	This was part of the overall governance framework for FITS.
FPRC	Family Procedure Rules Committee	The Family Procedure Rule Committee (FPRC) makes rules of court that govern the practice and procedure followed in family proceedings in the High Court and family court.FPRC is an advisory non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Ministry of Justice.
FRPS	Financial Resources and Payment for Services
FSAS	Finance and Strategy Analytical Service
FTE	Full Time Equivalent
FTR	Fixed Term Recall
FTW	For The Win
G&O	Governance & Operational Data
GAL	Global Address List
GBS	Government Banking Service
GDS	Government Digital Service
GES	Government Economic Services	The Government Economic and Social Research team (GESR) supports the joint Heads of the Government Social Research Service in providing strategic leadership to GSR and in delivering an effective service.
GIAA	Government Internal Audit Agency
GIRR	Government Information Risk Return
GKIM	Government Knowledge & Information Management	The Government KIM Professional Framework has been mapped to the CILIP Professional Knowledge and Skills Base (PKSB), as this is the only professional framework to cover the whole spectrum of KIM activities.
GL	General ledger
GLiMR	Generalised Listing, Management & Registration	GLiMR is a Generalised Listing, Management & Registration multi-jurisdiction Case Management system used by several MoJ sites situated throughout England and Wales, and as well as being accessed by both MoJ/HMCTS staff has a public facing website that feeds directly to the GLiMR Database.
GOoD	Good Order Or Discipline
GORS	Government Operational Research Services	Operational research (also known as 'management science') is the application of scientific methods to management problems.
GPC	Government Procurement Card	Like a credit card, but with additional public sector controls etc. Divisions can use it for small purchases.
GPP	Generic Parole Process
GRS	Government Recruitment Service	The organisation that manages recruitment campaigns, ensuring open and fair competition. Previously known as Civil Service Resourcing.
GSCPP	Government Security Centre People and Physical
GSI	Government Secure Intranet
GSR	Government Social Research	The Government Social Research Service (GSR) provides evidence to understand, develop, implement, monitor and evaluate government policies and services. It has members in all the main government departments as well as the devolved administrations and other government bodies. It is one of five government analytical services providing evidence for policy.
GSS	Government Statistical Services	The Government Statistical Service (GSS) produces national statistics and other official statistics, analysis, interpretation and provides statistical advice to improve understanding and help decision-making.
GWS	Government Wide Service
HCC	Health Care Centre	NHS facility in a prison
HDC	Home Detention Curfew	A statutory scheme that allows the Secretary of State to release certain prisoners earlier than would otherwise be the case. It is designed to assist prisoners to resettle into the community.
HDCAD	Home Detention Curfew Approved Date
HDCED	Home Detention Curfew Eligibility Date
HJIP	Health and Justice Indicators of Performance	Dataset that collects information on the delivery and outcome requirements NHS England are required to commission as part of their organsiational responsibilities.
HLT	HMPPS Leadership Team
HMC	Hearing Management Component	Common component facilitating the management of hearings at HMCTS
HMCS	His Majesty's Courts Service	See HMCTS
HMCTS	His Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service	HMCTS is an executive agency of the MoJ, responsible for the administration of the courts of England and Wales.
HMG	His Majesty's Government
HMIP	His Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons	His Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons is an independent inspectorate which reports on conditions for and treatment of those in prison and young offender institutions and immigration facilities.
HMIP	His Majesty's Inspectorate of Probation	His Majesty's Inspectorate of Probation is a statutory body and independent UK inspectorate funded by the MoJ.
HMPPS	HM Prison and Probation Service
HN	Hostage Negotiators
HNA	Health Needs Assessment
HNA	Hostage Negotiation Advisors
HO	Home Office	The Home Office is a ministerial department responsible for immigration, security and law and order.
HoBA	Head of Business Assurance
HOIT	Home Office IT
HOMD	Head of Offender Management Delivery	An individual who can assign POMs to offenders
HOPO	Home Office Production Order
Horizon	Horizon Sex Offender Treatment Programme	Sex Offender Treatment Programme
HPA	Historic Prisoner Application	When IIS (Inmate Information System - the precursor to Prison-NOMIS) was decommissioned, the data was archived into HPA
HPP	High Performing Prison
HQ	Headquarters
HR	Human Resources
HRD	Human Resource & Development
HRM	Human Resource Management
HRP	Healthy Relationships Programme	Domestic Violence Programme (no longer running).
HSE	High Security Estate	The highest level of prison, eg Belmarsh.Could also be Health and Safety Executive, so avoid acronym.
HSP / HSF	Healthy Sex Programme / Health Sexual Functioning Programme	Sex Offender Treatment Programme
HTA	Hierarchical Task Analysis
HWF	Help with Fees	The service formerly known as Fee Remission.Two parts, public and staff facing
HwPV	Help With Prison Visits	Also known as APVS (Assisted Prison Visit Scheme)
I-SOTP	Internet Sex Offender Treatment Programme	Sex Offender Treatment Programme (no longer running).
IA	immigration and asylum	As in 'Immigration and Asylum Tribunal'.
IA	Independent Adjudicator	The person who makes Adjudication decisions. IA could also refer to Information Assurance
IA	Information Architecture	IA could also refer to Information Assurance, Information Architecture or immigration and asylum so confusing acronym.
IA	Information Assurance	as used by MOJ ICT.
IAC	Immigration and Asylum Chamber
IAC	Intensive Alternative to Custody
IAO	Information Asset Owner	Somewhat of an equivalent to a SIRO - related to information security / accreditation
IAPS	Integrated Accredited Programmes System
IAR	Information Access Representative	Admin staff based at a prison to collect information for a SAR
ICA	Initial Categorisation Assessment
IDA	identity assurance	Verifying digitally who someone is. There is a programme currently running (Jan 2014) in Government Digital Service, known as 'IDAP' which is implementing a way to verify the identity of citizens and business digitally so they can use government services online.
IDAM	identity access management approach	The approach initially taken by the common platform programme, for applications like Rota. They are now moving to use the GDS created identity system IDAP
IDAP	Government Digital Service's identity assurance programme
IDAP	Integrated Domestic Abuse Programme	Domestic Violence Programme (no longer running).
IDPC	Used in Defence request
IDS	Intrusion Detection System	An intrusion detection system (IDS) is a device or software application that monitors a network or systems for malicious activity or policy violations.
IDTS	Integrated Drug and Treatment System	Reception - Unit for prisoners detoxing from drugs and/or alcohol
IEP	Incentive/Earned Privilege (level)
IEPS	Incentives & Earned Privileges Scheme
IFS	Interim financial system
IICSA	Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse
IIS	Inmate Information System	The precursor to Prison-NOMIS. IIS has now been decommissioned, and data archived into HPA (Historic Prisoner Application)
IIS	Investors In People
IL#	Impact Levels [number]	Shorthand for BIL#Information has an impact level, not a whole system. eg p-Nomis is IL3 is wrong.specific information about prisoners will have business impact 3 if made publicAll revised with the new Official criteria
ILP	Individual Learning Plan
IM	Interventions Manager	Specifically related to Delius
IMA	Independent Monitoring Authority	Responsible for monitoring EU nationals post-Brexit
IMB	Independent Monitoring Board	Statutory bodies that monitor the welfare of prisoners of the UK to ensure they are properly cared for whilst in custody and detention.
IMR	Inmate Medical record
IMS	Intelligence Management Service
IMSU	Incident Management Support Unit
Interventions	This term in the prison system means courses that prisoners can attend that address behaviour such as drug misuse, domestic violence, etc
Interventions Manager	A system that records prisons interventions services
INView	INView	A system which supports the delivery of efficient and effective custodial services by providing cost and resource use information and reporting for services delivered in public sector prisons
InVision	A system used in prisons to detail staff. Also known as CSR (Corporate Staff Rostering) or My Detail
IOCCO	Interception of Communications Commissioner's Office
IOD	Information Operations Division	The Information Operations Division are responsible for:- Records Management - Managing the department's corporate record- FOI Act compliance - Ensuring FOI requests are dealt with in accordance with the Act.- Knowledge & Information Mgr - Building good Information Management and Knowledge Sharing- Information Assurance - Building Information Assurance against HMG mandated standards and developing a culture of good information handling- Data Protection Act Compliance - Ensuring personal data is handled lawfully / securely and that privacy is maintained
IOM	Integrated Offender Management
IPP	Imprisonment (or detention) for Public Protection	CJA 1991 & 2003
IPPF	Integrated Probation Performance framework
IPT	Inter Prison Transfer
IPV	Intimate Partner Violence
IPV	Inter Prison Visit
IQR	Implementation Quality Report
IR	Intelligence Report	A method of reporting intelligence information to the Security department via the Mercury system (generally done electronically, but paper versions are available to those without computer access)
IRaT	Incident Response and Tuning	Live product support at MoJ Digital.
IRC	Immigration Removal Centre
IRS	Incident Reporting System	A bolt on software to PNOMIS for recording incidents within Prisons and escorts.
is/are	denotes a description	Formal term from UK Government Orange Book: Management of Risk - Principles and Concepts.
IS91	A prisoner who has been detained under Immigration Act powers.
ISFL	Incentivised Substance Free Living	A type of substance misuse treatment wing within prison
ISP	Indeterminate Sentence Prisoner
ISP	Initial Sentence Plan
ISPP	Indeterminate Sentences for Public Protection	CJA 1991 & 2003
ISPs	Indeterminate Sentenced Prisoners	CJA 1991 & 2003
ISS	Investigations Support Services	Based in Crown House, Corby
ISSS	Information and System Support Services
ITA	Internation Trade Advisor	3rd party advisors contracted with UKTI offering business around business development.
ITHC	IT Healthcheck	Penetration and security testing for services before they are released for public consumption. The ITHC must normally be re-done for each major system change - adding new external API lookups to a previously secure system, for example. Services are not considered 'live' or 'accepted into service' until the ITHC has been completed. Partial ITHCs exist, where a service already passed ITHC and a focussed change has been made.
ITIL	ITIL, formerly[1] an acronym for Information Technology Infrastructure Library, is a set of detailed practices for IT service management (ITSM) that focuses on aligning IT services with the needs of business.
ITN	Invitation to negotiate	Confusing acronym - as more commonly used for Independent Television News.
IWC	Intermittent Weekday Custody
IWP	Integrated Word Processor	Used within classic Prison-NOMIS Application. Template documents that pull data through from the database. Examples include case management documentation and release licences
JAC	Judicial Appointments Commission
JC	Justices' clerk	Legally-trained member of staff in a magistrates' court, who advises the mags (who are volunteers) on tricky questions about the law.
JCHR	Joint Committee on Human Rights
JES	Job Evaluation Scheme
JETS	Juvenile Enhanced Thinking Skills	General Offending Programme
JHA	Justice and Home Affairs	One of the policy areas of the Council of the European Union
JIRPA	Joint Industrial Procedural Agreement
JISL	Judicially Imposed Sentence Length	NOMIS internal representation of sentence length as a single period term
JR	Judicial Review	Judicial review is a type of court proceeding in which a judge reviews the lawfulness of a decision or action made by a public body.
JS	JavaScript	Computer code used predominantly in Web browsers to provide enhance user interaction.
JS	Jury Summons
JSA	Jobseekers Allowance	You can apply for New Style Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) to help you when you’re looking for work.
JSAS	Justice Statistics Analytical Services	A unit within Ministry of Justice Analytical Services Directorate.
JSC	Justice Select Committee
JSON	JavaScript Object Notation	A simple, lightweight data format.
Justice Data	Public facing website for latest prison, probabtion and courts data	https://data.justice.gov.uk/
Kainos CTC	Kainos Challenge to Change	General Offending Programme
Kaizen	Kaizen Offender Behaviour Programme	General Offending Programme
KBA	Knowledge Base Article
KBD	Key Business Decisions
Key Traka	See: Traka
KI	Known Incident
KILO	Knowledge and Information Liaison Officer	Responsible person/people in a team/department for responding to Freedom of Information Act requests.
KML	Keyhole Markup Language
KPI	Key Performance Indicator	A type of performance measurement that evaluates the success of an organisation or of a particular activity.
KPT	Key Performance Target	A type of performance measurement that evaluates the success of an organisation or of a particular activity.
KSF	Keep Separate From	Used on a PER (Person Escort Record)
KW	Key Worker
L&D	Learning & Development
LA	Legal Advisor
LAA	Legal Aid Agency	The new LSC
LAA	Local Area Agreements	Local Area Agreements (LAAs) set out the priorities for a local area, as agreed between central government, the Local Authority and Local Strategic Partnership, and other key partners.
LAALAA	Legal Aid Agency Legal Adviser API	API for finding Legal Providers for specific categories of law close to a physical location (postcode or address).
LAPG	Legal Aid Practitioners Group	A membership organization representing legal aid providers/practitioners - lawyers, barristers etc. MOJ has a history of engaging with them on legal aid policy and practicalities.
LASPO	Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012	Essentially this act 'reformed' the scope of what legal aid was available for (decreased the scope). When talking to subject matter experts at the level of granting legal aid funding, you may hear reference to phrases such 'Schedule 1' of the act, which describes what cases are 'in scope' or 'out of scope' for legal aid. LASPO gave rise to the need for Exceptional Case Funding (ECF) to ensure that human rights were not breached by cutting the scope of legal aid
LASPOA2012	Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012	Essentially this act 'reformed' the scope of what legal aid was available for (decreased the scope). When talking to subject matter experts at the level of granting legal aid funding, you may hear reference to phrases such 'Schedule 1' of the act, which describes what cases are 'in scope' or 'out of scope' for legal aid. LASPO gave rise to the need for Exceptional Case Funding (ECF) to ensure that human rights were not breached by cutting the scope of legal aid
LBBs	Locks, Bars & Bolts	Daily Cell Searching
LBs	Living Blocks
LCJ	Lord Chief Justice	Head of the judiciary in England and Wales
LCJB	Local Criminal Justice Board
LDD	Learning Difficulties and Disabilities
LDD	Local Delivery Directory	Delivery of PSAs
LDU	Local Delivery Unit	Probation
LED	Licence Expiry Date
LEDS	Law Enforcement Data Service
LFW	Legal Framework	Reference data used in civil legal aid. It's a bunch of interlinked spreadsheets and it's used by CCMS.
LGBT	Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual & Transgender (network)
LGFS	Litigators Graduated Fees Scheme	Fee scheme available to Solicitors who work on Crown Court cases
LIAP	Low Intensity Alcohol Programme	Substance Misuse Programme (no longer running).
LIBRA		Case management system used by Magistrate Courts only to record case details, hearing dates, applicant details etc. Note that this system is not used by Crown Courts.
Libra	Database co-ordinated by Magistrates Courts
LIDS	Local Inmate Data System	Prison-wide computer system to log details of all prisoners and their sentences. Has been replaced by NOMIS.
LiP	Litigant in Person	An individual representing themselves at court without legal representation
LiPs	Litigants in Persons	People at court without a professional representative.
Liquid Logic		Children’s Services system (assume at one or more local authority)
LIT	Local Implementation Team	Seems to be a common acronym for national->regional->local projects with CPS/Police/CJS.
LNM	Living as New Me	Sex Offender Treatment Programme
Los	Lay Observers
LPA	Lasting Power of Attorney	This isn't usually capitalised, though GOV.UK and OPG do so.
LPP	Local People Plan	People's Strategy
LPP	Local Project Plan	Business Change - Microsoft Planning - OM, C-NOMIS, Phoenix
LPT	London Probation Trust
LR	Licence Recall
LR	Licence Revoke
LSA	Local Systems Administrator
LSAST	Live Services Applications Support Team (also a Prison-NOMIS Dev / Test environment by the same name)	This was the Prison-NOMIS Application Support Team's name, and an environment named 'LSAST' was originally built for them, but now it is now also used by NART for dev/test purposes
LSC	Legal Services Commision	Now the LAA
LSC	Learning & Skills Council	Replaced by Skills Funding Agency
LSCB	Local Safeguarding Children Board
LSF	Local Security Framework
LTD	Late Transfer Date for a Detention Training Order
LTHSE	Long Term High Security Estates
MAAT	Means Assessment Administration Tool	Web app used by caseworkers to process legal aid applications for criminal cases.
MaLi	Master list of initiatives	An MOJ Technology list of all projects and programmes of work across the ministry
MALRAP	Multi Agency Lifer Risk Assessment Panel
MAPPA	Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements
MAPPP	Multi-Agency Public Protection Prisoner
MAPPS	Multi-Agency Public Protection Service	will replace VISOR. In development from 2021 until approx 2024
MARAC	Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conference	A local, multi agency victim-focused meeting where information is shared on the highest risk cases of domestic violence and abuse (includes considerations of child protection) between different statutory and voluntary sector agencies
may	denotes approval	Formal term from UK Government Orange Book: Management of Risk - Principles and Concepts.
MBU	Mother and Baby Unit
MCA	Mental Capacity Act
MCOL	Money Claim Online	Online service to "take court action against someone if they owe you money and won’t pay you back".
MCQ	Minor Change Quotation	Related to tender documents.
MDO	Mentally Disordered Offender
MDS	Minimum Data Set
MDT	Mandatory Drug Testing	MDT has been in existence since 1996. Its purposes is to supply information on patterns of drug misuse, deter prisoners from misusing drugs, identify those in need of referral to drug treatment, contribute to drug supply reduction, and contribute to prisoner safety, violence reduction, order and control.
MFA	Multi Factor Authentication
MFD	Multifunctional device	Printers at MOJ, which can also be used to scan in documents (hence the 'multifunctional' bit).
MHA1983	Mental Health Act 1983
MI	Management Information	Data or statistics collected and used to measure performance in a business
Microlise	GPS System allowing real-time vehicle tracking
might	denotes a possibility	Formal term from UK Government Orange Book: Management of Risk - Principles and Concepts.
MINT	Managed INTerconnect	Two firewalls that bridge the OMNI and Quantum networks.
MIS	Management Information System
MITM	Man In The Middle
MLRA	Managed Libra Record Access application	Web app used by LAA caseworkers to access court information on Libra
MODs	Models for Operational Delivery
MOiC	Managing Offenders in Custody
MOJ	Ministry of Justice	Use capitals - 'MOJ', not 'MoJ'.Departments don’t take the definite article, so 'MOJ', not 'the MOJ'.
MOJFIN	MoJ Finance	Data warehouse the LAA finance team uses
MOJO	Ministry of Justice OFFICIAL	End User Compute service developed as a replacement for the QUANTUM end user compute service for HMPS staff.
MOSOVO	Managing sexual offenders and violent offenders	The Sexual or Violent Offender Manager is specially trained in the response to and Management of Sexual or Violent Offenders (MOSOVO) and Active Risk Management (ARMS).
MOU	Memorandum Of Understanding
MP	Modernisation Platform	The Modernisation Platform is a hosting platform where teams can host and modernise applications which are not suitable for Cloud Platform
MPS	Moving People Safely
MPSI	Ministers, Parliament, Strategy and implementation
MQPL	Measuring the Quality of Prisoner Life
MSV	Most Serious Violence
MTD	Mid Transfer Date
MTP	Money To Prisoners	Currently a working name for a project digitising the process of sending money to UK prisoners.
MTR	Legal Aid Means Test Review	A set of changes to the means test for legal aid. It raises thresholds, and many other changes to the rules, so that more people get legal aid, and therefore access to justice.
MTU	Modular Temporary Units
MVP	Minimum Viable Product
My Detail	A system used in prisons to detail staff. Also known as CSR (Corporate Staff Rostering) or InVision WFM
NA	Negotiation Advisors
NACRO	National Association for the Care & Resettlement of Offenders
NACS	Network Access Control Service	A centralised in-house built authentication service that provides access to the MoJ network at a device level.
NAO	National Audit Office
NAP	National Applied Psychology Group
NAPO	National Association of Probation Officers
NART	National Applications Reporting Team	This team support Reporting from nDelius, OASys and Prison-NOMIS using Business Objects. Answer ad-hoc queries including FOIs, PQs and Research Projects. We're on slack #nart
NCRD	Notional Conditional Release Date
NCSC	National Cyber Security Centre	The National Cyber Security Centre is an organisation of the United Kingdom Government that provides advice and support for the public and private sector in how to avoid computer security threats.
ND	nDelius
NDE	Non-Directly Employed
nDelius	National Delius	Probation case management system
NDH	Nomis Data Hub	Term used by HP, which is part of the NOMIS API architecture for Prison Visits Booking
NDPB	Non-departmental public body	Literally means a bit of government that's not a department - only really used in government circles.
NDPDU	National Drug Programme Delivery Unit
NDTMS	National Drug Treatment Monitoring Service	The National Drug and Alcohol Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS) collects person level, patient identifiable data from drug and alcohol treatment providers at a national level
NEET	Not in Education, Employment, or Training
NEMC	National Executive Management Committee
NEPACS	(Formerly) The North East Prison After Care Society	A charity working in the north east of England to support prisoners and their families.
NFA	No Fixed Abode
NFR	Non Functional Requirements
NFR	Not For Release
NGSS	Next Generation Shared Services
NIAC	National Intelligence Assessment Centre
NID	National Interventions Directory	PSO 4350
NIMU	National Incident Management Unit
NINo	National Insurance number
NISE	Network Information Security Enhancement (Project)	This aims to migrate intranet applications from the existing environment to a new one for reasons of security.
NMC	New Me Coping	Sex Offender Treatment Programme (no longer running).
NMO	Non-Molestation Order
NMS	New Me Strengths	General Offending Programme
NOC	Notice of Change	(Privately Managed Prisons and CRC)
NOLASA	No on Libra Auto Search	NOLASA (Not On Libra Auto-Search Application) is a micro-service that reads cases that have been marked as 'not-on-libra' from the MLRA database once a day (8pm). It then auto-searches the HMCTS Libra system via the LAA's Infox message broker service. The message protocol used is SOAP.If NOLASA finds that there are results returned for a case it updates its status in MLRA to say 'RESULTS FOUND'. This means that caseworkers can filter 'not on libra' cases to ones that they know they will have results for. They can then prioritize their case searching and linking more effectively.
Nominals	In Police parlance a ‘nominal’ is someone recently arrested. In prisons it is a prisoner suspected (and often under surveillance) of carrying out criminal activity within the prison, such as drug dealing.
NOMIS	National Offender Management Information System	aka c-nomis or p-nomisSystem designed to replace LIDS that logs details of all prisoners, their sentences, and more.
NOMS	National Offender Management Service	Replaced by HMPPS April 2017
NOMS Number	National Offender Management Service Number	Used in Prison-NOMIS as the unique identifier for prisoners. (Note that colloquially it is referred to as both ‘NOMIS ID’ and ‘NOMS ID’ - but in the system it is labelled as ‘NOMS number’. Labelled on the Prison-NOMIS database as OFFENDER_ID_DISPLAY)
NORA	Non-ORA Sentence (under 12 months for an offence committed before 01/02/2015)
NORB	National Operations Readiness Board
NORCET	NOMS Occupational Risk Control Evaluation Tool
NoS	Notice of Supervision	Appears to apply to Young Offenders (YO)
NOW	Notices, Orders and Warrants	A product of the Common Platform
NPA	National Partnership Agreement	Between Home Office and Department of Health
NPD	Non Parole Date
NPPV	Non-police personnel vetting
NPS	National Probation Service	Old name for Probation Service (changed June 2021).
NPS	New/Novel Psychoactive Substances	Also known as PS (Psychoactive Substances), and more commonly as Spice or Legal Highs
NPT	National Prosecution Team	A joint team of CPS and Association of Chief Police Officers/National Policing Improvement Agency staff. T
NQOS	Newly Qualified Officers	(Probation)
NSF	National Security Framework
NSI	Non Statutory Intervention
NSJE	Non Standard Journal Entry
NSMART	National Standards Monitoring And Reporting Tool	Probation standards tool
NSOGP	Northumbria Sex Offenders Group Programme	Sex Offender Treatment Programme (no longer running).
NSVC	National Security Vetting Contact	Someone within a team or organisation with knowledge of the securty vetting process, and who can help with vetting questions or processes.
NTC	Not to contact	Used to show the there should be no contact between a prisoner and a prisoner contact. Often used in social visits booking.
NTP	Notice to prisoners
NVDA	NonVisual Desktop Access	Windows screen reader, like JAWS, but free.
NWOW	New Ways Of Working
O/C	Offence Committed
OAMU	Offender Assessment and Management Unit
OAS	Oracle Analytics Server	Oracle MI reporting tool. Used by LAA for reporting on data in EDW, Mojfin and other sources. OAS is the upgraded version of OBIEE.
OASys	Offender Assessment System	An offender assessment package. It identifies and classifies offending related needs, such as anger management, drug dependency, and poor literacy.
OAT	Operational Acceptance Test
OBIEE	Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition	LAA MI reporting tool that was replaced by OAS.
OBN	Overseas British Network	AKA OBNI
OBP	Offender Behaviour Programme
OBR	Office for Budget Responsibility	"It is the duty of the Office to examine and report on the sustainability of the public finances"
OCA	Observation, Categorisation and Allocation
OCA	Offender classification and assessment
OCC	Office for Contracts & Competitions	Home Office department dealing with contracts for Correctional Services
OCC	Operational Control Centre
OCMC	Online Civil Money Claims
ODI	Open Data Institute
OEM	Oracle Enterprise Manager	Oracle monitoring software, used in CCMS
offloc	Offender Location report	The old name for the Common Data Extract.
OFSTED	Office For Standards in Education
OGD	Other Government Department
OGRS	Offender Group Reconviction Scale	Actuarial predictor of risk of reoffending
OGSIRO	Office of the Government Senior Information Risk Owner	SIRO for all of government, based in the cabinet office.
OI	Own Interest	A reason for removing a prisoner from association (See R45)
OISG	Operational Implementation Support Group
OJC	Office for Judicial Complaints	Soon to be JCIO
OJEU	Official Journal of the European Union	The Official Journal of the European Union (the OJ) is the official gazette of record for the European Union (EU). It is published every working day in all of the official languages of the member states.Most interestingly, it's used as a forum to publish procurement requests to all member states, and offers a (longer, slower) alternative to using GCloud.
OLAP	Online Analytical Processing
OLASS	Offenders' Learning and Skills Service	Integrated (prison based) offender education with mainstream academic and vocational provision. OLASS ceased delivery in 2018, and was replaced by something else (can't remember what though, but it essentially devolved a lot of it down to local purchases at governor level)
Oleeo	Website	Recruitment service used during recruitment of Civil Servants, especially where vetting is required.
OM	Offender Manager	Probation
OMBCG	Offender Management Business Co-ordination Group
OMFQ	Offender Management Feedback Questionnaire
OMI	Offender Management Inspection
OMiC	Offender Management in Custody
OMiC Go	A digital solution providing basic prisoner information, auto allocation of prisoners to KW’s	This may be an old name for the service
OMIS	Overseas Market Introduction Service
OMNI	Offender Management National Infrastructure	A network used to access probation systems
OMPPG	Offender Management Public Protection Group
OMS	Other MOJ Suppliers
OMSPD	Offender Management Sub-Programme Board
OMU	Offender Management Unit	Handle sentence calc etc in sites
ONR	OASys National Reporting
OOH	Out of hours
OPA	CCMS's Oracle Policy Automation	Rulebase engine
OPD	Offender Personality Disorder
OPG	Office of the Public Guardian
OPG	Operation Policy Group
OPV	Official Prison Visitor	OPVs visit prisoners who rarely, if ever, have visits from friends or family members. OPVs are volunteers and are independent of the prison and its staff.
ORA2014	Offender Rehabilitation Act 2014
Oracle HRMS	Prison Human Resource Management System	Replaced by SOP
OS	Offender Supervisor
OSAG	Operational and System Assurance Group	responsible for several of the audits we hold data for on the Hub and are mentioned in TNs
OSAP	Offender Substance Misuse Programme	Substance Misuse Programme (no longer running).
OSG	Operational Support Group/Grade	Operational support grades (OSGs) work in prisons carrying out duties essential to the smooth running of the establishment. They may work in and around a prison establishment or on duties which take them outside - to courts or other prisons, for example.
OSPT	Official Solicitor and Public Trustee
OST	Operational Security Team
OWASP	Open Web Application Security Project
OWB	Oracle Warehouse Builder	An Oracle Extract Transform Load tool used for some LAA data warehouses
P-ASRO	Prisons Addressing Substance Related Offending	Substance Misuse Programme (no longer running).
P-NOMIS	Prison National Offender Management Information System	Operational database used in prisons for the management of offenders.
P3T	Personnel Physical Procedural Technical	The areas of information assurance.
PA	(Care Leaver) Personal Advisor	A Personal Advisor (PA) acts as a focal point to make sure that a young person leaving care/prison gets the right support as they move into adulthood
PAC	Public Accounts Committee
PACE	Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984
PACE1984	Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984
Pact	Prison Advice and Care Trust	Pact is a pioneering national charity that supports prisoners, people with convictions, and their children and families.
PADA	Prospective Added Days Awarded	Added days that are awarded whilst an offender is unsentenced, but must be added to the release dates when sentenced.
PAF	Postcode Address File	The source of data for postcode lookups. The DSD uses this for its own service which converts it to a latitude/longitude, like on Court Finder and CLA Provider Directory.
PAG	Performance and Analysis Group	Replaced by PPAS
PAG (Old Name - See PPAS)	Planning and Analysis Group	Now known as PPAS (Prison & Probation Analytical Services)
PAMS	Prisoner Activity Management System	Not much more info on this at the moment - I understand that it is how they manage prisoner activity, work schedules, learning and visit schedules.
Parom 1	Generic Parole Assessment Report
PBA	Payment By Account	Payment system streamlining payment by solicitors and other legal professionals across HMCTS services
PBR	Payment By Results	A methodology whereby payments to suppliers are contingent on the independent verification of work they have performed (results)
PCC	Police and Crime Commissioner	PCCs are elected to make sure that local police meet the needs of the community
PCC(S)A2000	Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000
PCI	Payment Card Industry	An industry standards body responsible for regulation of handling debit/credit cards.
PCL-R	Assessment of Psychopathology
PCO	Prisoner Custody Officer
PCOL	Possession Claim Online
PCOSO	People Convicted Of Sexual Offences	The 'P' may also be known as 'Persons' or 'Prisoners'
PCR	Pre-sentence report
PCS	Public & Commercial Services	Civil Service union.
PCSC	Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022
PCSCA2022	Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022
PCSO	Police Community Support Officer
PCUAM	Provider Contracts and User Access Management
PCVL	Prison to court video link
PDA	Personal Digital Assistant
PDB	Probation Delivery Board
PDG	Prison Directors Group
PDS	Public Defence Service
PDU	Probation Delivery Unit	Probation Delivery Unit - previously known as LDU (Local Delivery Unit).
PE	Physical Education
PEA	Prisoner Earnings Act
Peakon	People Analytics & Employee Engagement Software	Similar to the People Survey, but we're polled fortnightly instead of yearly
PECS	Prisoner Escort Custody Services	The provision of prisoner journeys and transfers between prisons, the case and supervision of prisoners in custody in court cell suites and the custody of prisoners in court docks.
PED	Parole Eligibility Date
PEEPs	Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans	To help people evacuate the building in the event of a fire alarm or other emergency, especially if they may have difficulty due to a disability, injury, pregnancy, etc.
PER	Prisoner Escort Record
PETP	Prison Estates Transformation Programme
PEX(ER)	Public Expenditure (Efficiency and Reform) Cabinet Sub-committee
PF	Petty France	Short name for MOJ main building at 102 Petty France, SW1H 9AJ London
PF	Policy Framework
PFD	President of the Families Division
PFI	Private Finance Initiative	A way of creating 'public-private partnerships' where private firms are contracted to complete and manage public projects.
PFS	Prisoner Facing Service	A service that is provided to a Prisoner
PGA	Prison Governor's Association	Governor's union
PGD	Prison Group Director
PGP	Pretty Good Privacy	A way of encrypting emails in such as way that only the intended recipient can read.
PHDP	Prison Health Delivery Plan
PHE	Public Health England
Phoenix	A human resources IT system, replaced by SOP
PHW	Public Health Wales
PI	Probation Instruction
PIA	Privacy Impact Assessment
PIAC	Prisoner's Information & Activities Committee	Meets with the SMT every Thursday at 12:30pm
PIC	Performance Improvement Co-ordinator
PID	Project Initiation Document
PIMS	Provider Interaction Management System
PiP	Person in Prison	Target Operating Model (TOM) and other Transition documents make reference to this
PIP	Personal Independence Payment
PIP	Performance Improvement Planning	A strand of the Benchmarking programme
PIPES	Psychologically Informed Physical Environment Services
PIU	Protective Isolation Unit	accomodation for known or probable COVID-19 cases
PLIC	Prison leavers Innovation Challenge	It aims to develop innovative new solutions to break the cycle of reoffending
PLP	Personal Learning Plan
PMBLO	Pregnancy, Mother and Baby Unit Liaison Officer
PMO	Project Management Office	Bit of organisation that sets standards for project management.
PMP	Privately Managed Prisons
PMR	Performance Management Review	Civil Servant performance reviews
PMU	Prison Management Unit
PMU	Population Management Unit
PNC	Police National Computer	The Police National Computer is used to facilitate investigations and sharing information of both national and local importance.
PNCiD	Police National Computer Id	To identify a particular person by the number allocated by police when creating a record on the PNC.
PO	Prison Officer
PO	Probation Officer	Not to be confused with Prison Officer in much OM literature
POA	Payment on account	LAA term for when a provider requests to be paid for part of the work they already carried out, before they submit their final claim/bill
POA	Prison Officer's Association	Prison officer's union
PoC	Proof of Concept
POELT	Prison Officer Entry Level Training	A 12 week programme that equips new officers with the skills and knowledge needed to begin their careers working in the prison service and rehabilitate offenders.
POLAR	Payment of Legal Aid Remuneration	Legacy system for recording and tracking all claims received by the National Taxing Team (NTT) as part of assessing Legal Aid claims
POM	Prison Offender Manager	The new Case Manager/Band 4 Prison Officer
POM	Probation Offender Manager	Probation Service Role in Prison
POMC	Prison Operations Management Committee
PoP	Person on Probation	Community / Suspended Sentence Order - Target Operating Model (TOM) and other Transition documents make reference to this
POPO	Prolific and Other Priority Offender
POPs	Privately Operated Prisons
POS	Prison Onsite Support
POSOE	Provision Of a Safe Operating Environment	SBC
POTO	Priestley One to One Programme	General Offending Programme (no longer running).
PPAS	Prison and Probation Analytical Services	Formerly PAG, part of the Ministry of Justice Analytical Services directorate.
PPCS	Public Protection Casework Section
PPD	Project & Program Delivery
PPE	Personal Protective Equipment
PPI	Payment Protection Insurance	Insurance product that provided insurance to borrowers, if unable to repay for unforeseen reasons
PPM	Project & Program Management
PPMHG	Public Protection and Mental Health Group	Formally PPU - Public Protection Unit
PPO	Prison and Probation Ombudsman	The Prison and Probation Ombudsman carries out independent investigations into deaths and complaints in custody.
PPO	Priority Prolific Offender
PPRC	Persons posing a risk to children
PPT	Prison Performance Tool
PPU	Public Protection Unit
PPUD	Public Protection Unit Database	Licensing of Prisoners: Manages Recalls and Parole. Prison and Probation can access this system, that is primarily used by a large team (Circa 150 people) in Petty France. This is being replaced but unclear with what and when
PQ	Parliamentary Question
PQiP	Professional Qualification in Probation
PRC	Prisons Research Centre	University of Cambridge
Pre Con	Previous Conviction
Precons	Pre-convictions	These are found on the PNC. A PDF ‘Printout’ of precons for a particular offender is used by court probation officers
PRP	Probation Reform Programme	A Draft Target Operating Model for the Future of Probation Services in England and Wales
PRRD	Post Recall Release Date
PRS	Prison Rating System	A system designed to provide a prison rating based on an assessment of output with additional factors such as audits and surveys. Replaced by the CPT in 2017/2018
PS	Police Sergeant
PS	Probation Service	New name (June 2021) for what was the National Probation Service.
PSA	Public Service Agreement	MoJ Business Objectives
PSD	Personal and Social Development	Refers to courses such as art courses, which seek to foster PSD
PSE	Police Sergeant Employee
PSG	Policy and Strategy Group
PSI	Prison Service Instructions	Rules, regulations and guidelines by which prisons are run. See also PSO
PSI	Public Sector Information	Any information (content) whatever its medium (form) – including print, digital or electronic, and sound recordings – produced, held or disseminated by a public sector body is considered public sector information. This includes an enormous range: corporate information such as reports and financial data, codes of practice, public records, statistics, still and moving images, press releases, artefacts, publication schemes, and so on.
PSITA	Police Station Immigration Telephone Advice	There are 3 different firms. A part of the solicitor role.
PSN	Public Services Network	The PSN is the government’s high-performance network, which helps public sector organisations work together, reduce duplication and share resources
PSNP	PSN for Police	PSN + encryption, used by police forces
PSO	Prison Service Orders	Rules, regulations and guidelines by which prisons are run. These are outlined in Prison Service Instructions (PSIs) and Prison Service Orders (PSOs).
PSO	Probation Service Officer
PSOA	Provider Statement of Account	A financial statement produced by LAA, showing the position between LAA and a legal aid provider
PSP	Public Sector Prisons
PSP	Public Social Partnership
PSRs	Pre-Sentence Reports
PSS	Post Sentence Supervision
PSU	Personal Support Unit
PSU	Prison Service Union	Prison officer's union
PTPH	Plea and Trial Preparation Hearing
PTR	Prisoner Transfer Request
PTTP	Prison Technology Transformation Programme	Laptops, mobile devices, applications, etc. for the whole of HMPPS. Replacement for Quantum. Programme commenced 2020.
PUI	CCMS's Provider User Interface	Provider facing part of CCMS. It's used by providers to submit, amend and follow up on legal aid applications for civil cases.
PUM	Portal User Management	Use by LAA Online support team to reset users passwords, unlock their accounts and assign CCLF roles to users.
PVB	Prison Visits Bookings
PVO	Privileged Visiting Order	Extra visiting credit for enhanced prisoners. One or two extra visits per month.
Q&A	Questions & Answers
QA	Quality Assurance
QAT	Quality Assurance Testing
Qlikview	Third Party Business Intelligence software
QPC	Quantum Principal Contact
QUANTUM	Prison Service IT System
R&D	Research & Development
R&R	Reward & Recognition
R&R	Reasoning and Rehabilitation
R45	Rule 45	Prison rule which allows a governor to remove a prisoner from association with others, either for GOOD or OI.
RAA	Regional Assurance Advisor
RAB	Resource Accounting & Budgeting
RACI	Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed	"Accountable" is sometimes "Approved"
RAD	Rapid Application Development
RADA	Restoration of Added Days Awarded
RAG	Race Advisory Group
RAG	Red Amber Green	Traffic lights system of highlighting performance figures
RAID	Risks, Issues, Assumptions and Dependencies
RAMP	Risk Assessment and Management Panel
RAR	Rehabilitation Activity Requirement
RBAC	Role Based Access Control
RBCP	Regional Business Change Partner
RBRu	Rapid Build Residential unit
RC	Regional Change	Incorrectly entered. Please see RCBP.
RCJ	Royal Courts of Justice	Contains both the High Court and Courts of Appeal, based on the Stand in London.Definitely *not* like a large County Court!
RCSG	Rehabilitation and Care Services Group
RCU	Reverse Cohorting Unit	Accommodation for a designated period of time for new receptions, recalls, transfers or prisoners returning from hospital, allowing emergent infectious cases to be detected before individuals enter the general population
RDC	Rapid Deployment Cells
RDR	Resettlement Day Release	Relates to RoTL (Release on Temporary Licence) documentation
RDS	Research Development and Statistics
REAG	Race & Equalities Action Group
REAP	Race Equality Action Plan
Resettlement	Also known as ‘Throughcare’	Preparing prisoners for release, including issues such as accommodation, benefits, etc
RESOLVE	Resolve	Violence Programme
RESPECT	Racial Equality for Staff	The Prison Service's staff self-support network for minority ethnic staff. Aims to eliminate racism in the workplace.
RESPOND	Racial Equality for Staff & Prisoners	The Prison Service programme for achieving racial equality for staff and prisoners.
RFS	Request for Service	A procurement term used in NOMS (elsewhere?), specifically with HP to define new change requests and projects
RIC	Remand in custody
RIDDOR	Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences
RIDs	Receipt, Inspection and Dispatch Units
RIE	Release in Error
RIPA	Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000	Regulations with regards the use of surveillance/CCTV etc.
RM2000	Risk Matrix 2000	A static risk assessment for sex offenders over the age of 18
RMAD	Risk Management Accreditation Document	See RMADS
RMADS	Risk Management and Accreditation Document Set
RMP	Risk Management Plan
ROC	Remuneration of Central Fund Costs	It is used by a team of LAA caseworkers called 'Criminal cases unit'. They are the ones who assess claim for payments for any type of crime work that sits outside the graduated fee scheme. It's like processing payments for exceptional cases but it doesn't come from the Exception Case Funding scheme (which is only applicable for Civil). Providers claim those payments by emailing an Excel form to the Criminal case unit (there are 8 different forms depending on what's being claimed) who then log the claim into ROC, assess the claim and then send it to SSCL who processes the payment.
RoH	Risk of Harm
ROM	Rough Order of Magnitude	A crude estimate of the cost of a project. See also SWAG and PIDOOMA.Could also stand for 'read-only memory'.
ROPARPS	The Release of Prisoners (Alteration of Relevant Proportion of Sentence) Order 2020
ROPARPS2020	The Release of Prisoners (Alteration of Relevant Proportion of Sentence) Order 2020
ROR	Resettlement Overnight Release	Relates to RoTL (Release on Temporary Licence) documentation
ROR	Restoration of Remission	Synonym for Restoration of Added Days Awarded (RADA)
ROSH	Risk of Serious Harm
RP	Rolling Programme	Sex Offender Treatment Programme (no longer running).
RPA	Robotic Process Automation
RPD	Regional Probation Director
RPM	Royal Prerogative of Mercy
RPTS	Residential Property Tribunal Service
RRAP	Reducing re-offending Regional Action Plan
RRDS	Records Retention and Disposition Schedule
RRLO	Race Relations Liaison Officer
RRMT	Race Relations Management Team
RS	Restricted Status prisoners
RSG	Rehabilitation Services Group
RSHO	Risk of Sexual Harm Order
RSIPB	Resource Strategy Implementation Programme Board
RSR	Risk of Serious Recidivism	Algorithmic predictor
RTM	Requirements Traceability Matrix
RTUs	Ready To Use Units
RTW	Right To Work	Evidence that someone is eligible to work lawfully in the UK.
Rx	Remand to Custody
S&A	Strategy & Assurance
S3	Simple Storage Service	Amazon's data storage service
SA2020	Sentencing Act 2020
SAQ	Self Assessment Questionnaire	A form done in a the first couple days of prison by new prisoner
SAR	Subject Access Request	Similar to an FOI, but for yourself. At the MOJ this is typically used by prisoners or civil servants.
SARA	Spousal Assault Risk Assessment
SARN	Structured Assessment of Risk and Need
SASH	Suicide and Self Harm
SAU	Standards Audit Unit
SAV	Security Architecture Review	A term used by IA (Information Assurance)
SBC	Specification, Benchmarking and Costing
SC	Security Check	Level of Security Clearance
SC2020	Sentencing Code 2020
SCA	Start Custody Assessments
SCA2007	Serious Crime Act 2007
SCC	Service Civilian Court
SCC	Specialist Computer Centres	Providers of web hosting
SCG	Safer Custody Group
SCH	Secure Children's Home	A Secure Children's Home is a type of Youth Detention Accommodation and/or Secure Welfare Accommodation that accommodates children and young people between the ages of 10-17.
SCMS	Small Claims Mediation Service	Mediation service for people involved in small claim disputes. Applies to cases worth less than £10,000.
SCP	Self Change Programme	Violence Programme (no longer running).
SCS	Senior Civil Servant	Someone with a senior post in the Civil Service, for example a Director.
SCSBP	Senior Civil Service Business Partner	Organisation or individual who assists during recruitment of a Senior Civil Servant.
SCT	Standards Coaching Team	Specially-trained prison staff who support and train officers in some of the country’s most challenging jails.
SCU	Separation & Care Unit	Also / previously known as the Segregation Unit (Seg)
SDI	Service Delivery Indicator
SDO	Standard Directions Order	Instructions from the court, issued to parties on how they should prepare for a legal case
SDOPC	Special Sentence of Detention for Terrorist Offenders of Particular Concern
SDP	Short Duration Programme	Substance Misuse Programme (no longer running).
SDR	Service Delivery Requirements
SDS	Safe, Decent & Secure
SDS	Secure Document Storage	A team in LAA whose mission is to provide LAA digital products and services with a secure document service as a common capability.
SDS	Standard Determinate Sentence
SDS+	Standard Determinate Sentence Plus (2/3rds release
SDT	Safety Diagnostic Tool
SED	Sentence Expiry Date
SEG	Strategy and Effectiveness Group
Segregation Unit	Also known as Seg, Solitary Confinement, SCU & CSC
SEO	Search engine optimisation	Improving search rankings for your site - for instance by using popular search terms in titles or web copy.
SERS	Proprietary Serco software	Used to plan and store PECS movements and milestone events
SFA	Skills Funding Agency	A partner organisation of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and our job is to fund and regulate adult further education and skills training in England.
SFO	Serious Further Offence
SHA	Strategic Health Authority
shall	denotes a requirement: a mandatory element	Formal term from UK Government Orange Book: Management of Risk - Principles and Concepts.
should	denotes a recommendation: an advisory element	Formal term from UK Government Orange Book: Management of Risk - Principles and Concepts.
SHPO	Sexual Harm Prevention Orders
SID	Self Inflicted Death
SIDs	Self Inflicted Death
SIG	Service Integration Group
SIM	Service Incident and Management
SiP	Staff in Post
SIR	Security Information Record
SIR (Now superseded by IR)	Security Information Report	Prison. A previous method of reporting intelligence information to the Security department via paper. Now superseded by IR (Intelligence Report) generally submitted electronically via the Mercury system
SIRB	Security Information Risk Board
SIRO	Senior Information Risk Owner
SIWG	Strategy and Implementation Working Group
SL	Service Level measure	Synonymous with “service level”, “performance measure”, “performance metric” and “assurance metric”. These are descriptions of the activities monitored for performance purposes.
SLA	Service Level Agreement
SLC	Student Loans Company
SLED	Sentence and Licence Expiry Date
SLM	Send legal mail to prisons
SMART	Specific Measureable Achievable Realistic Time-bound
SMB	Strategic Management Board
SME	Small or medium-sized enterprise
SME	Subject matter expert	In LAA it is an expert on a particular part of legal aid policy/delivery
SMOD	Subject Matter of Dispute	If a legal dispute is about the ownership of an asset, then the value of that asset may be treated differently when calculating eligibility for legal aid for the dispute
SMP	Substance Misuse Programme
SMS (in the Hub)	Supplier Management System	CWA (Contracted Work and Administration)'s Supplier (Legal Provider) data
SMT	Senior Management Team
SNOW	Service Now	Contraction used by Prison staff
SO	Supervising Officer
SOA	Service-Oriented Architecture	Both a term and a product suite from Oracle, responsible for providing a point of interface for external integrations for CCMS for case creation
SOCT	Security, Order and Counter Terrorism
SoMo	Social Mobility
SOP	Single Operating Platform	The HR system for the Ministry of Justice and other government departments. Used to complete HR, procurement, finance and payroll transactions.
SOP	Standard Operating Procedure
SOPC	Special Custodial Sentence for Certain Offenders of Particular Concern
SoS	Secretary of State	The Cabinet Minister in charge of a government department.
SOTP	Sex Offender Treatment programme
SPC	Suicide Prevention Co-ordinator
SPG	Strategic Partner Gateway
SPIP	Separated Parents Information Program	Organises parent meetings with moderator.
SPL	Special Purpose License	A type of ROTL
SPO	Senior Probation Officer
SPO	Sentence Plan Outcomes
SPOC	Single Point of Contact
SPOF	Single Point of Failure	Often refers to a single system, machine or person without which/whom a process/system/company will grind to a halt.e.g. a sysadmin who is the only one who knows the password to the mail server, who then gets hit by a bus.
SPR	Sentence Planning & Review
SPRM	Sentence Plan Review Meeting
SPTL	Suicide Prevention team Leader
SR	Service Release	Used by nDelius application team to reference releases
SRA	Security Risk Assessments
SRO	Senior Responsible Owner	In MOJ, the SRO is a single, senior, accountable figure, representing business needs and decisions. A key feature of good governance for all types of Programmes and Projects, there should be one on each project.
SRO	Sexual Risk of Harm Order
SSC	Shared Services Connected	Now known as Shared Services Connected Limited (SSCL).
SSCL	Shared Services Connected Limited	Central government HR/finance management team, based in Newport, Wales. Responsible for management of Phoenix (HR system in a big Oracle DB).
SSCS	Social security and child support	As in 'Social Security and Child Support Tribunal', which deals with appeals about benefits decisions.
SSCU	Separation, Support and Care (segregation) Unit
SSG	Small Systems Group	App making people at ICT
SSO	Suspended Sentence Order
SSOT	Single Source Of Truth
SSP	Shared Services Programme
STC	Secure Training Centre	Privately-run, education-focussed centres for children aged 12-17.
STOP	Substance, Treatment and Offending Programme	Drugs programme
STS	Serious Terrorism Sentence
SU	Service User	An offender in probation parlance
SU	Shielding Unit	Accommodation to protect the most vulnerable, with enhanced levels of biosecurity including dedicated staff
SUPS	the programming framework used to create a variety of HMCTS systems	SUPS comes in different flavours. MCOL is written against SUPS 15, which is implemented in J2EE and the Java Spring framework. PCOL chose to use an older version, SUPS9, which has significant performance issues.SUPS is also sometimes used as shorthand for a contract which has Juror, Familyman and Caseman inside it.
SUS	System Usability Scale	The System Usability Scale (SUS) provides a “quick and dirty”, reliable tool for measuring the usability. It consists of a 10 item questionnaire with five response options for respondents.
SWAG	Scientific, Wild-Ass Guess	Rough guess of how much a project will cost. See also ROM and PIDOOMA.
Syscon	Software company who provide Prison-NOMIS	"Syscon Justice Systems is the world's leading provider of offender management solutions, used by more jails and prisons to manage offenders than any other"
SystmOne	Name for the digital Healthcare System used by prison NHS staff	Often referred to as System One, but whilst it’s pronounced the same, the e isn’t actually in the name.
TA	Technical Architecture
TACT	Terrorism ACT	‘TACT Prisoner’
TAD	Technical Architecture Document
TAD	Tender Assessment Database	Used by LAA to record assessment of contract tender responses.
TAFKADSD	The Artists Formerly Known as the Digital Services Division	Subsequently known as MOJ Digital Services. Currently known as MOJ Digital.
TBC	To Be Confirmed
TBD	To Be Decided or Defined
TC	Therapeutic Community
TCEP	Transforming Compliance and Enforcement Project/Programme
TCM	Temporary Custodial Module
TCoP	Technology Code of Practice	The Technology Code of Practice is a cross-government agreed standard used for the [Cabinet Office spend control](https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/cabinet-office-controls) process and the [Local Digital Declaration](https://www.localdigital.gov.uk/declaration/).
TDiP	Transforming Delivery in Prisons
TED	Tenders Electronic Daily	TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) is the online version of the 'Supplement to the Official Journal of the EU', dedicated to European public procurement.TED provides free access to business opportunities. It is updated 5 times a week with some 1,500 public procurement notices from the European Union, the European Economic Area and beyond.
TERS	Tariff Early Removal Scheme
TERSED	Tariff Early Removal Scheme Eligibility Date
TF	Think First	General Offending Programme (no longer running).
THD	Target Hearing Date
Throughcare	Also known as 'Resettlement'	Preparing prisoners for release, including issues such as accommodation, benefits, etc
TIL	Today I Learned
Timewise	Timewise Offender Behaviour Programme	General Offending Programme
tl;dr	too long; didn't read	Make it snappy!
TLA	Three Letter Acronym
tma;dr	Too many acronyms; didn't read.	One made up especially for the civil service.
TMB	The Magenta Book	The Magenta Book is a set of guidance notes for policy evaluators and analysts, and people who use and commission policy evaluation.
TN	Technical Note	A Hub document which provides the technical details of the service level measures, including how they are calculated.
TNA	The National Archives	Can also mean something rude.
TNA	Training Needs Analysis
TOIL	Time Off in Lieu
ToR	Terms of reference	Not to be confused with Glastonbury Tor.
TORERA	Terrorist Offenders (Restriction of Early Release) Act 2020
TORERA2020	Terrorist Offenders (Restriction of Early Release) Act 2020
TP	Temporary Promotion	Term usually used in relation to short term career promotions and covering the role of a higher band member of staff
TR	Transforming Rehabilitation
Traka	Traka key systems only allow authorised users to access prison keys, ensuring they remain accounted for at all times.
TSP	Thinking Skills Programme	An intervention that deals with domestic violence issues
TTG	Through The Gate	The means by which a greater number of offenders are given continuous support from custody into the community.
TTP	Technology Transition Programme	Replacement for DOM1 and DISC IT programme.Move to MS Asure cloud based service, Office 365.
TUPE	TUPE stands for Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
TUSED	Top Up Supervision Expiry Date
TV	Tender Verification
TVM	Transaction Volume Model
TVSOGP	Thames Valley Sex Offenders Group Programme	Sex Offender Treatment Programme (no longer running).
TW3	The Way We Work
UAL	Unlawfully At Large
UAT	User Acceptance Test
UC	Universal Credit
UCPD	User Centred Policy Design
UI	User Interface
UKTI	UK Trade & Investment
UoF	Use of Force
UPC	Unwanted prisoner contact
UPW	UnPaid Work
UX	User Experience
VAR Form	Vehicle Activity Report form	Contingency if PDA fails
VC	The Virtual Campus
VCC	Video Conferencing Centres	Video conferencing centres (VCCs) are modern video facilities, purpose-built in prisons that serve the courts. VCCs are designed so they are suitable for court and parole hearings. They are also suitable for legal consultations. VCCs are not used for family or social visits by video call.
VCD	View Court Data	LAA web app for viewing data from HMCTS's "Common Platform"
VCS	Voluntary & Community Sector
VDT	Violence Diagnostic Tool	Provides regular Management Information on violence to all levels of the agency and HMPS
VDT	Voluntary Drug Testing
VDTU	Voluntary Drug Testing Unit
VEDS	Voluntary Early Departure Scheme
VICSO	Veteran in Custody Support Officer
VIS	Victims Information Service
ViSOR	Violent and Sex Offender Register	ViSOR is a secure national database that can be accessed by the Police, Probation, and Prison services, allowing the three services to work on the same system to help reduce reoffending. This is being replaced by MAPPS (see above)
VLE	Virtual Learning Environments
VO	Visiting Order	Visiting credit for prisoners in the form of a reference number. Usually 2 a month.
VOM	Vehicle Operations Manager
VP	Vulnerable Prisoner
VPS	Virtual Private Server
VPU	Vulnerable Prisoner Unit
VSiP	Visting someone in prison
VSR	Victim Summary Reports
WAIS	Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale	Test used for diagnosing learning difficulties and disabilities (LDD)
WAN	Wide Area Network
WASI	Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence	Shorter version of WAIS assessment tool
WAV	Weighted Average Volumes
WCAG	Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
WFH	Work From Home
WFPT	Workforce Planning Tool
WIS	Witness Intermediary Scheme
WLB	Work Life Balance
WLMT	WorkLoad Measurement Tool
WP360G	Citrix Windows 7 environment used by NOMS staff	WP360G is the Citrix environment used by NOMS staff to connect to a Windows 7 session from Quantum systems (which run Windows XP).
WTG	Web Technology Group	Sub-contractor to Logica, they have access to the majority of our DNS zone files (incl. justice.gov.uk) and charge HYUGE amounts for small changes.
WTP	Workplace Technology Programme	WTP provides a generation of end-user-devices, in use c.2018-2020, by HMPPS office staff. Laptops and O365 & GSuite. They were previously using Quantum devices. WTP will be replaced by PTTP.
XHIBIT	Exchanging Hearing Information by Internet Technology	Case management system used by Crown Courts only to record case details, hearing dates, applicant details etc. Note that this system is not used by Magistrates Courts.
XOD	Shift swap, shorthand used in some prisons	May have also rendered this as EXOD or X-OD
XXCCMS		Name of an LAA database schema. According to old rules, XX is the standard prefix for customization in EBS (E-Business Suite)
YCS	Youth Custody Service
YJAF	Youth Justice Application Framework
YJB	Youth Justice Board
YO	Young Offender
YOA	Young Adult Offenders
YOI	Young Offender Institution	A type of prison in England and Wales intended for offenders aged beween 18-20, although some prisons cater for younger offenders.
YOS	Youth Offending Service
YOT	Youth Offending Team	A multi-agency team co-ordinated by a local authority, overseen by the YJB, that deals with young offenders and attempts to prevent youth recidivism and incarceration.
YTD	Year To Date