Community directory

Ministry of Justice

The core components of the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) are:

• The National Offender Management Service: administration of correctional services in England and Wales through Her Majesty's Prison Service and the Probation Service, under the umbrella of the National Offender Management Service.
• Youth Justice and sponsorship of the Youth Justice Board.
• Sponsorship of the Parole Board, Her Majesty's Inspectorates of Prison and Probation, Independent Monitoring Boards and the Prison and Probation Ombudsmen.
• Criminal, civil, family and administrative law: criminal law and sentencing policy, including sponsorship of the Sentencing Guidelines Council and the Sentencing Advisory Panel and the Law Commission.
• The Office for Criminal Justice Reform: hosted by the Ministry of Justice but working trilaterally with the three CJS departments, the Ministry of Justice, Home Office, Attorney General's Office.
• Her Majesty's Courts Service: administration of the civil, family and criminal courts in England and Wales.
• The Tribunals Service: administration of tribunals across the UK.
• Legal Aid and the wider Community Legal Service through the Legal Services Commission.
• Support for the Judiciary: judicial appointments via the newly created Judicial Appointments Commission, the Judicial Office and Judicial Communications Office.
• The Privy Council Secretariat and Office of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
• Constitutional affairs: electoral reform and democratic engagement, civil and human rights, freedom of information, management of the UK's constitutional arrangements and relationships including with the devolved administrations and the Crown Dependencies.
• Ministry of Justice corporate centre: focused corporate centre to shape overall strategy and drive performance and delivery.