Capability Reviews: Progress and Next Steps - The Civil Service

and people management. The MoJ is building on the significant progress madeon DCA’s agenda for action, to help build a new department and to realise thepotential of joining up services like the courts, prisons and probation to, for example,reduce re-offending.For all departments, there has been a cycle of regular monitoring and assurance,most recently with a series of ‘year on’ stocktakes between the Cabinet Secretaryand departmental boards for DCSF, DWP and the Home Office, held in the autumnof 2007. This section provides summaries of progress in the different departments.The departments have assessed themselves against the areas for actionrecommended in their reports. Three months following the review, the CabinetSecretary met the boards to assure himself that the departments’ plans were robustand on track. At six months and a year, members of the original review teamsreturned and conducted a series of interviews and workshops to produce anassurance opinion on the departments’ progress. The Cabinet Secretary met theboards to challenge them where necessary and to celebrate the improvements thathave been made. The summaries below set out the progress that has been made,established from this progress.6TRANCHE 1 DEPARTMENTS: A YEAR ON