The renewed contract ensures that, as from this month, approximately 750 Committee members who select and appoint magistrates will receive specialist training over a three-year period.
The training – which includes bespoke instruction on the ‘uniqueness’ of interviewing for the Magistracy, developing the appropriate interviewing skills and how to record reliable evidence – must be finished before a member can complete interviews to select magistrates.
Incorporating course administration, design, delivery and venue management, the contract will see the deployment of 19 G4S personnel at venues nationwide.
Simon Murphy – the managing director of G4S Assessment Services, one of the UK’s leading assessment, consultancy and training businesses – commented: “We’re delighted to secure this contract with the Ministry of Justice and build on the productive, open and honest partnership we have forged with them over the last four years.”
He added: “We’re looking forward to building on our continued provision of high levels of support and services to ensure that the Ministry continues to deliver the highest quality of service while achieving the efficiencies required by the current economic climate.”
