Ministry of Justice Acronyms

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Abbreviation	Definition	URL	Info
1LS/2LS/3LS	1st, 2nd or 3rd Line Support
A&O	Accommodation and Occupancy (also known as AO)
A2J	Access to Justice
AA	Administrative Assistants		in context of PVB
AAC	Administrative Appeals Court
ACCT	Assessment, care in custody and teamwork self-harm monitoring documentation
ACL	Access Control List
ACPO	Association of Chief Police Officers
AD	Active Directory
ADI	Application Desktop Integrator		Spreadsheet containing total disbursement of a prison, sent from business hub to regional accounts team.#moneyToPrisoners
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
ADPO
ADR	Alternative dispute resolution
ADR	Architectural design record
AEP	Accelerated Encryption Processing
AFK	Away From Keyboard
AIS	Acceptance Into Service
AJTC	Administrative Justice Tribunals Council	http://ajtc.justice.gov.uk/
ALB	Arm's-length body	http://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/our-work/new-models-governance-and-public-services/arms-length-bodies	An organisation that pretends it's independent from government, even though it's not, really.With apostrophe and hyphen when spelled out in full.
ALS	Action Learning Set
AMI	Amazon Machine Image	https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/AMIs.html
AO	Accommodation and Occupancy (also known as A&O)
AO	Accounting Officer	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/accounting-officers-appointed-by-hm-treasury-july-2013	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
AP	Approved Premises
API	Application Programming Interface
APPG	All Party Parliamentary Group	http://www.parliament.uk/about/mps-and-lords/members/apg/	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	https://www.gov.uk/help-with-prison-visits	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.
ASPIRE	Assess – Sentence Plan – Implement – Review – Evaluate		This is the core framework of offender management / sentence planning
AT	Assisted Technology
ATIA	Architecture, Technology and Information Assurance		A former unit inside MOJ ICT
ATM	At The Moment
ATOS	Multinational Company - often involved in consultancy or healthcare	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atos	See URL
AWS	Amazon Web Services	http://aws.amazon.com/
Acas	Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service	https://www.acas.org.uk/	(Note: only an initial cap.) Aims to prevent and resolve employment disputes prior to employment tribunals.
Admin 4 database			An Excel file that has Police Station & Mags Court schemes on
Alfresco	A document management system. Used by the courts
Asset	Youth Justice Board assessment documentation for young people
BAFO	Best And Final Offer
BAU	Business As Usual
BBA	Big Book of Acronyms	http://bigbookofacronyms.herokuapp.com/	The thing you're reading right now.
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
BDG	Business Development Group
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	https://blogs.sap.com/2010/06/23/de-constructing-a-biar-file/	'Basically a proprietary zip file used to move Business Intelligence content from one BusinessObjects Enterprise Server to another'
BIL#	Business Impact Level [number]	http://gcloud.civilservice.gov.uk/2012/03/09/so-what-is-il3-a-short-guide-to-business-impact-levels/	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	https://www.sap.com/uk/products/bi-platform.html
BIS	Department for Business Innovation & Skills	https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-business-innovation-skills
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)
BPG	???		A digital gateway service that links nDelius to CRC systems(Not sure if this is a typo of SPG?)
BRB	Be Right Back
BSR	Building Skills for Recovery		Substance misuse programme
BWVC	Body Worn Video Camera
C&R	Control & Restraint		Prison
CA	Case Admin
CAB	Citizen's Advice Bureaux	http://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/	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	https://www.cafcass.gov.uk/
CAIT	Child Abuse Investigation Team	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abuse_investigation_team
CAIT	Child Arrangements Information Tool		Information resources to help separating couples make arrangements (custody, etc.) for their children.
CARAT	Counselling, Assessment, Referral, Advice, Throughcare		CARAT workers are intermediaries between drug treatments providers and the prisoners themselves
CAS	Case Allocation System		Used after sentencing to assign offender as NPS or CRC
CATS	Case Assessment and Tracking System	https://www.co-financing.org/cats.php	.NET application written and used by CFO at Daresbury Park in Warrington for managing ESF funded projects
CBO	crime billing online
CCBC	County Court Bulk Centre	http://www.justice.gov.uk/courts/northampton-bulk-centre/ccbc	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	https://claim-crown-court-defence.service.gov.uk/	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 litigators fee claims.
CCM	Commercial Contract Management
CCMCC	County Court Money Claims Centre
CCMS	Client Cost Management System		LAA web app to replace CIS, including financial modules to manage the LAA fund.
CCO	Call Centre Officer		Call centre officer of DSCC
CCR	Crown Court Remuneration		LAA web app that manages Advocate fee claims.Feeds into LAA data warehouse.
CCS	Crown Commercial Service	https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/crown-commercial-service
CDC	Change Data Capture
CDC	Change Directorate Committee
CDCS	Change Data Capture Staging		LAA Oracle database for capturing data from remote databases.Receives data from CCMS which it captures within CDCS and then pulls the relevant information in to EDW.
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).
CDO	Chief Digital Officer
CDT	Central Drafting Team		In referance to ministerial corrospondence
CEMLI	Configuration, Extension, Modification, Localisation and Integration
CEO	Court enforcement officer
CESG	Communications-Electronics Security Group	http://www.cesg.gov.uk	Part of GCHQ (spies and stuff) up in Cheltenham, they provide policy and assistance on digital security. Run IA and the impact levels etc.
CFO	Co-Financing Organisation	https://www.co-financing.org	The name of a group within HMPPS who manage external funding (such as that from the ESF). Offices located in Daresbury Warrington.
CFT	Civil, Family and Tribunals		The name of a directorate in HMCTS.
CGI	Conseillers en Gestion et Informatique	http://www.cgi.com/en	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
CHS	(Civil Legal Aid) Case Handling System	https://github.com/ministryofjustice/cla_frontend/	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	https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/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."
CIS	Corporate Information System		LAA thick client app for legacy legal aid case management.
CJG	Criminal Justice Group
CJS	Criminal Justice System	http://www.cesg.gov.uk/Pages/homepage.aspx	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	https://www.cjsm.net/	A "secure" mail platform used for conveying sensitive information across organizations and individuals.
CJX	Criminal justice eXtranet		links police pnn network to other govt networks
CLA	Civil Legal Advice	https://www.gov.uk/civil-legal-advice
CLA	Civil Legal Aid
CM	Custodial Manager		A Band 5 prison officer. 3 stripes on their epaulettes
CNA	certified normal accommodation	http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19395427	Relating to prison capacity: "the good, decent standard of accommodation that the service aspires to provide all prisoners"
COBR	Cabinet Office Briefing Room
COM	Community Offender Managers		A role within the National Probation Service
COPs	Contracted Out Prisons		Privately run establishments
COTS	Commercial off-the-shelf		software; as opposed to custom build
CPA	Contract Package Area		Refers to the geographic area a CRC is responsible for
CPM	Child Protection Management
CPO	Chief Probation Officer
CPO	Community Probation Officer
CPP	common platform project
CPR	Civil Procedure Rules	http://www.justice.gov.uk/courts/procedure-rules/civil
CPR	Criminal Procedure Rules	http://www.justice.gov.uk/courts/procedure-rules/criminal
CPS	Crown Prosecution Service	http://www.cps.gov.uk/	The organisation that is responsible for providing the prosecution in criminal cases in England and Wales.
CR	Change Request
CRC	Community Rehabilitation Company		Organisations that will deliver probation services from 2014, replacing probation trusts.
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.
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)
CRP	Conference Room Pilot
CSA
CSC	Close Supervision Centre		Also known as Segregation unit, Seg, Solitary Confinement & SCU
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
CSL	Civil Service Learning	https://civilservicelearning.civilservice.gov.uk/	Training courses for civil servants.
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
CTC	Counter Terrorism Clearance	https://www.gov.uk/guidance/security-vetting-and-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
CVCC	Court Video Conference Centre
CWA	Contracted Work and Administration (system)		LAA web app for managing providers and their contracted work, including contract billing.
CWX	Civil debt recovery service. Legacy debt management app, hosted external.
Cohort, ‘Specialised Cohort’	Prisoners who are higher risk and are assigned to Key Worker and a Prison Offender Manager (POM)
Cohort, ‘Core Cohort’	Prisoners who are lower risk and assigned to a Key Worker and CRC
Custody Assistant	subcontracted staff in custody
Custody Officer	police staff
D.Y.O.	Deter Young Cohort Offender
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
DBS	Defence Business Services
DCA	Department for Constitutional Affairs	http://www.dca.gov.uk	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
DD	Deputy Director
DDC	Deputy Director of Custody
DDC	Digital Document Conversion
DDC	deputy director of custody		regional responsibilty for a group of prisons
DDaT	Digital, Data and Technology
DFD	Data Flow Diagram
DIB	Divisional Implementation Board
DIC	death in custody
DISC	Development, Innovation and Support Contracts		Shared services framework - Atos (infrastructure), CGI (formerly LogicaCMG - applications) supporting Dom1.http://www.publictechnology.net/sector/case-study-ministry-justice-disc-transition-team-successful-transition-it-services-six-existi
DPA	Data Protection Act
DR	Defence Request		Formally DSDS.
DR	Disaster Recovery
DRY	Don't Repeat Yourself		Often "DRY-ed". Removing duplication in code.
DS	Digital Services		MOJ Digital Services (formally DSD)
DSA	Data Sharing Agreement
DSCC	Defence Solicitor Call Centre
DSD	Digital Service Designers
DSD	Digital Services Division	http://blogs.justice.gov.uk/digital/	Now obsolete. Please refer to 'Digital Services' (without the 'Division') or 'MOJ Digital Services'.
DSDS	Defence Solicitor Deployment Service
DSF	Digital Services Framework	http://digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/2013/07/09/digital-services-framework/	A framework for procuring software development teams across government
DSG	Digital Steering Group
DSO	Defence & Security Organisation	https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-trade-and-investment-defence-and-security-organisation
DSS	Data Security Standard	https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org	An accreditation for handling credit/debit cards managed by Payment Card Industry (PCI).
DTRG	Digital Technology Review Group
DV	Developed Vetting	https://www.gov.uk/guidance/security-vetting-and-clearance	Level of Security Clearance
DV	Domestic Violence
DWP	Department for Work and Pensions	https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-work-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.
Dip sampling	A quality control process used by police forces in which a representative proportion of files are selected and inspected
EAT	Employment Appeal Tribunal
ECS	Elastic Container Service	https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/
EDRMS	Electronic Documents and Record Management System		Also known as NorthgateLAA's externally hosted document/record management system, used by CCMS.
EE
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.
EMI	Electronic Management Information		LAA web app that allows LAA to share MI data with providers. Currently used for financial statement.
EQUIP	Excellence and Quality in Probation Processes
ERP	Enterprise Resource Planning
ESF	European Social Fund	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Social_Fund	Provides funding via the CFO to provide additional services to offenders
ET	Employment Tribunal		Also stands for 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial', a 1982 sci-fi movie about a loveable alien.
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
EXHIBIT	Crown Court System of Record
ExCo	Executive Comity Board		Permanent Secutary and Director Generals (6 of).
Extradition	only registered solicitor can go
F2050	prisoner core record		protected characteristics and case information
FALA	Find a legal advisor	http://find-legal-advice.justice.gov.uk/
FCA	Financial Conduct Authority	http://fca.org.uk	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	https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/foreign-commonwealth-office
FCOS	Foreign and Commonwealth Office Services	https://www.fcoservices.gov.uk/	A trading fund of the FCO. Providers of IL2 and IL3 web hosting
FIS
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
FOI	Freedom Of Information
FPMF	FITS Programme Management Framework		This was part of the overall governance framework for FITS.
FPRC	Family Procedure Rules Committee	https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/family-procedure-rule-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
FTC
FTW	For The Win
GAL	Global Address List
GAPS
GBS	Government Banking Service	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-banking-service
GDS	Government Digital Service	http://digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/
GL	General ledger	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_ledger
GPC	Government Procurement Card	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-procurement-card--2	Like a credit card, but with additional public sector controls etc. Divisions can use it for small purchases.
GSI	Government Secure Intranet
GWS	Government Wide Service
HCC	Health Care Centre		NHS facility in a prison
HDC	home detention curfew
HMCS	Her Majesty's Courts Service		See HMCTS
HMCTS	Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service		They prefer ampersand (&) to avoid CATS acronymmiaowPreviously known as Her Majesty's Courts Service before it merged with Tribunals to become HMCTS
HMG	Her Majesty's Government
HMIP	Her Majesty's inspectors of prisons		thematic reviews also conduct unanounced prison inspections
HMPPS	HM Prison and Probation Service	https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/her-majestys-prison-and-probation-service
HO	Home Office	https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office	Department responsible for the police, UK Border Agency, and the Security Service (MI5).
HOIT	Home Office IT
HPA	Historic Prisoner Application		When IIS (Inmate Information System - the precursor to Prison-NOMIS) was decommissioned, the data was archived into HPA
HSE	High Security Estate		The highest level of prison, eg Belmarsh.Could also be Health and Safety Executive, so avoid acronym.
HSE	high security estate prison use
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	https://www.gov.uk/help-with-prison-visits	Also known as APVS (Assisted Prison Visit Scheme)
IA	Information Architecture	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_architecture	IA could also refer to Information Assurance, so confusing acronym.
IA	Information Assurance	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_assurance	as used by MOJ ICT.
IA	immigration and asylum	http://www.justice.gov.uk/tribunals/immigration-asylum	As in 'Immigration and Asylum Tribunal'.
IAC	Immigration and Asylum Chamber
IAO	Information Asset Owner		Somewhat of an equivalent to a SIRO - related to information security / accreditation
IAR	Information Access Representative		Admin staff based at a prison to collect information for a SAR
ICA	Initial Categorisation Assessment
IDA	identity assurance	http://digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/tag/idap/	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	https://gds.blog.gov.uk/category/id-assurance/
IDPC	Used in Defence request
IDS	Intrusion Detection System	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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)
IICSA	Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse	https://www.iicsa.org.uk
IIS	Inmate Information System		The precursor to Prison-NOMIS. IIS has now been decommissioned, and data archived into HPA (Historic Prisoner Application)
IL#	Impact Levels [number]	http://gcloud.civilservice.gov.uk/2012/03/09/so-what-is-il3-a-short-guide-to-business-impact-levels/	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
IMB	Independent Monitoring Board
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
IPT
IPV	Intimate Partner Violence
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)
IRC	Immigration Removal Centre
IRS	Incident Reporting System
IRaT	Incident Response and Tuning		Live product support at MoJ Digital.
ISP	Indeterminate Sentence Prisoner
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.
ITN	Invitation to negotiate		Confusing acronym - as more commonly used for Independent Television News.
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
InVision	A system used in prisons to detail staff. Also known as CSR (Corporate Staff Rostering) or My Detail
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	http://www.i2n.com/case-and-evidence-management/interventions-manager
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.
JES	Job Evaluation Scheme
JHA	Justice and Home Affairs	http://www.consilium.europa.eu/policies/council-configurations/justice-et-affaires-interieures-(jai)?lang=en	One of the policy areas of the Council of the European Union
JR	Judicial Review	https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/you-and-the-judiciary/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
JSC	Justice Select Committee	http://www.parliament.uk/justicecttee
JSON	JavaScript Object Notation	http://json.org/	A simple, lightweight data format.
KBD	Key Business Decisions
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 Indicators
KSF	Keep Separate From		Used on a PER (Person Escort Record)
KW	Key Worker
Key Traka	See: Traka
L&D	Learning & Development
LAA	Legal Aid Agency		The new LSC
LAALAA	Legal Aid Agency Legal Adviser API	https://github.com/ministryofjustice/laa-legal-adviser-api	API for finding Legal Providers for specific categories of law close to a physical location (postcode or address).
LBs	Living Blocks
LDD	Learning Difficulties and Disabilities
LDO	Like, Duh!... Obviously!
LDU	Local Delivery Unit		Probation
LEDS	Law Enforcement Data Service
LFW	Legal Framework	https://dsdmoj.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CCMS/pages/822738987/Legal+Framework	Reference data used in civil legal aid. It's a bunch of interlinked spreadsheets and it's used by CCMS.
LIBRA			National standard IT system for 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.
LIT	Local Implementation Team		Seems to be a common acronym for national->regional->local projects with CPS/Police/CJS.
LPA	Lasting Power of Attorney	http://www.justice.gov.uk/forms/opg/lasting-power-of-attorney	This isn't usually capitalised, though GOV.UK and OPG do so.
LPT	London Probation Trust
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
LSCB	Local Safeguarding Children Board
LiPs	Litigants in Persons		People at court without a professional representative.
Liquid Logic			Children’s Services system (assume at one or more local authority)
MAAT	Means Assessment Administration Tool		LAA web app for crime means assessment for legal aid.
MALRAP	Multi Agency Lifer Risk Assessment Panel
MAPPA	Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-Agency_Public_Protection_Arrangements
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
MCA	Mental Capacity Act	https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/mental-capacity-act-making-decisions
MCOL	Money Claim Online	https://www.gov.uk/make-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.
MFD	Multifunctional device		Printers at MOJ, which can also be used to scan in documents (hence the 'multifunctional' bit).
MI	Management Information		Data or statistics collected and used to measure performance in a business.
MINT	Managed INTerconnect		Two firewalls that bridge the OMNI and Quantum networks.
MIS	Management Information System
MITM	Man In The Middle
MLRA	LAA Managed Libra Record Access application
MODs	Models for Operational Delivery
MOG
MOJ	Ministry of Justice	https://www.gov.uk/designprinciples/styleguide	Use capitals - 'MOJ', not 'MoJ'.Departments don’t take the definite article, so 'MOJ', not 'the MOJ'.
MOU	Memorandum Of Understanding
MOiC	Managing Offenders in Custody
MPS	Moving People Safely
MPSI	Ministers, Parliament, Strategy and implementation
MQPL	Measuring Quality of Prisoner Life
MTP	Money To Prisoners		Currently a working name for a project digitising the process of sending money to UK prisoners.
MVP	Minimum Viable Product
MaLi	Master list of initiatives		An MOJ Technology list of all projects and programmes of work across the ministry
My Detail	A system used in prisons to detail staff. Also known as CSR (Corporate Staff Rostering) or InVision WFM
NACRO	National Association of Care & Resettlement of Offender		A prisoner charity.
NAO	National Audit Office	https://www.nao.org.uk/
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
ND	nDelius
NDE	Non-Directly Employed
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.
NEET	Not in Education, Employment, or Training	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEET
NEMC	National Executive Management Committee
NEPACS	(Formerly) The North East Prison After Care Society	http://www.nepacs.co.uk/	A charity working in the north east of England to support prisoners and their families.
NFR	Non Functional Requirements
NGSS	Next Generation Shared Services
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.
NMO	Non-Molestation Order	https://www.gov.uk/injunction-domestic-violence/eligibility-non-molestation
NOC	Notice of Change		(Privately Managed Prisons and CRC)
NOLASA	No on Libra Auto Search	https://github.com/ministryofjustice/laa-nolasa	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.
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	http://www.justice.gov.uk/about/noms	Covers prisons and probation
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)
NPS	National Probation Service
NPT	National Prosecution Team	http://www.cps.gov.uk/your_cps/our_organisation/spd.html	A joint team of CPS and Association of Chief Police Officers/National Policing Improvement Agency staff. T
NQOS	Newly Qualified Officers		(Probation)
NSI	Non Statutory Intervention
NVDA	NonVisual Desktop Access	http://www.nvaccess.org/	Windows screen reader, like JAWS, but free.
NWOW	New Ways Of Working
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.
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	http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/business-analytics/business-intelligence/enterprise-edition/overview/index.html	Legal Aid Agency's data warehouse solution.
OBN	Overseas British Network		AKA OBNI
OBP	Offender Behaviour Programme	https://www.justice.gov.uk/offenders/before-after-release/obp
OBR	Office for Budget Responsibility	http://budgetresponsibility.independent.gov.uk/	"It is the duty of the Office to examine and report on the sustainability of the public finances"
ODI	Open Data Institute	http://www.theodi.org/
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.
OJC	Office for Judicial Complaints		Soon to be JCIO
OJEU	Official Journal of the European Union	http://www.ojeu.eu/whatistheojeu.aspx	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	https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/olass-funding-rules-and-guidance	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)
OLCS
OM	Offender Manager		Probation
OMIS	Overseas Market Introduction Service
OMNI	Offender Management National Infrastructure		A network used to access probation systems
OMS	Other MOJ Suppliers
OMU	Offender Management Unit
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
OPD	Offender Personality Disorder
OPG	Office of the Public Guardian	http://www.justice.gov.uk/about/opg
ORA	Offender Rehabilitation Act
OS	Offender Supervisor
OSAG	Operational and System Assurance Group
OSG	Operational Support Group/Grade	http://www.skillsforjustice-cp.com/viewrole.php?id=9	“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
P3T	Personnel Physical Procedural Technical		The areas of information assurance.
PAC	Public Accounts Committee
PACE	Police and Criminal Evidence Act
PAF	Postcode Address File	http://www.royalmail.com/marketing-services/address-management-unit/address-data-products/postcode-address-file-paf?campaignid=paf_redirect	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 (Old Name - See PPAS)	Planning and Analysis Group		Now known as PPAS (Prison & Probation Analytical Services)
PAMS	Prisoner Activity Management System	http://www.justice.gov.uk/downloads/about/hmipris/glossary.pdf	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.
PBR	Payment By Results	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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	https://www.gov.uk/police-and-crime-commissioners	PCCs are elected to make sure that local police meet the needs of the community
PCI	Payment Card Industry	https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org	An industry standards body responsible for regulation of handling debit/credit cards.
PCOL	Possession Claim Online	https://www.possessionclaim.gov.uk/pcol/
PCSO	Police Community Support Officer
PDS	Public Defence Service	http://publicdefenderservice.org.uk/
PEA	Prisoner Earnings Act
PECS	Prison Escort Custody Service
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	Person Escort Record
PETP	Prison Estates Transformation Programme
PEX(ER)	Public Expenditure (Efficiency and Reform) Cabinet Sub-committee
PF	Petty France	http://osm.org/go/euutfmhzv?way=25445981	Short name for MOJ main building at 102 Petty France, SW1H 9AJ London
PFD	President of the Families Division	https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/publications/president-of-the-family-division-pfd-the-rt-hon-sir-james-munby/
PGA	Prison Governors Association
PGD	Prison Group Director
PGP	Pretty Good Privacy	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy	A way of encrypting emails in such as way that only the intended recipient can read.
PI	Probation Instruction
PIA	Privacy Impact Assessment
PIMS	Provider Interaction Management System
PIP	Personal Independence Payment
PIPES	Psychologically Informed Physical Environment Services
PMO	Project Management Office		Bit of organisation that sets standards for project management.
PMP	Privately Managed Prisons
PMR			Civil Servant performance reviews
PMU	Population Management Unit
PMU	Prison Management Unit
PNC	Police National Computer
PO	Prison Officer
PO	Probation Officer		Not to be confused with Prison Officer in much OM literature
POA	Prison Officer Association
POELT	Prison Officer Entry Level Training
POLAR	Payment of Legal Aid Remuneration		LAA app (Access database)
POM	Prison Offender Manager		The new Case Manager/Band 4 Prison Officer
POM	Probation Offender Manager		Probation Service Role in Prison
POPs	Privately Operated Prisons
PPAS	Prison & Probation Analytical Services		Previously known as PAG (Performance & Analysis Group)
PPCS	Public Protection Casework Section
PPD	Project & Program Delivery
PPM	Project & Program Management
PPO	Prisons and Probation Ombudsman	http://www.ppo.gov.uk/
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	http://www.traintobeaprobationofficer.com/about-the-training/
PS	Police Sergeant
PSD	Personal and Social Development		Refers to courses such as art courses, which seek to foster PSD
PSE	Police Sergeant Employee
PSI	Prison Service Instructions	http://www.justice.gov.uk/offenders/psis	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	https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/public-services-network	The PSN is the government’s high-performance network, which helps public sector organisations work together, reduce duplication and share resources
PSO	Prison Service Orders	http://www.justice.gov.uk/offenders/psos	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
PSP	Public Sector Prisons
PSP	Public Social Partnership
PSU	Personal Support Unit	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Support_Unit
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	http://www.gov.uk/prison-visits
PVO	Privileged Visiting Order		Extra visiting credit for enhanced prisoners. One or two extra visits per month.
Parom 1	Generic Parole Assessment Report
Phoenix			Phoenix is the central Oracle system used for procurement, finance, and HR… stuff.
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
QAT	Quality Assurance Testing
QDS
QUANTUM	Prison Service IT System
R&D	Research & Development
RACI	Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed		"Accountable" is sometimes "Approved"
RAD	Rapid Application Development
RAG	Red, Amber, Green
RAID	Risks, Issues, Assumptions and Dependencies
RAR	Rehabilitation Activity Requirement
RBAC	Role Based Access Control
RBCP	Regional Business Change Partner
RC	Regional Change		Incorrectly entered. Please see RCBP.
RCJ	Royal Courts of Justice	http://courttribunalfinder.service.gov.uk/courts/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!
RDR	Resettlement Day Release		Relates to RoTL (Release on Temporary Licence) documentation
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
RIPA	Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act
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
ROC	Remuneration of Central Fund Costs		LAA app
ROM	Rough Order of Magnitude	en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_estimate	A crude estimate of the cost of a project. See also SWAG and PIDOOMA.Could also stand for 'read-only memory'.
ROR	Resettlement Overnight Release		Relates to RoTL (Release on Temporary Licence) documentation
ROSH	Risk of Serious Harm
ROTL	Release on Temporary Licence
RPA	Robotic Process Automation	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotic_process_automation
RRDS	Records Retention and Disposition Schedule	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/record-retention-and-disposition-schedules
RSR	Risk of Serious Recidivism		Algorithmic predictor
RTM	Requirements Traceability Matrix
Resettlement	Also known as ‘Throughcare’		Preparing prisoners for release, including issues such as accommodation, benefits, etc
S3	Simple Storage Service	http://aws.amazon.com/s3/	Amazon's data storage service
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
SAV	Security Architecture Review		A term used by IA (Information Assurance)
SBC	Specification, Benchmarking and Costing
SC	Security Check	https://www.gov.uk/guidance/security-vetting-and-clearance	Level of Security Clearance
SCA	Start Custody Assessments
SCC	Specialist Computer Centres	http://www.scc.com/	Providers of web hosting
SCU	Separation & Care Unit		Also / previously known as the Segregation Unit (Seg)
SDS	Safe, Decent & Secure
SEO	Search engine optimisation	https://www.gov.uk/guidance/content-design/data-and-analytics	Improving search rankings for your site - for instance by using popular search terms in titles or web copy.
SID	Self Inflicted Death
SIG	Service Integration Group
SIM	Service Incident and Management
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
SLA	Service Level Agreement
SLC	Student Loans Company
SME	small and medium-sized enterprises		Can also stand for subject matter expert.
SMS (in the Hub)	Supplier Management System		CWA (Contracted Work and Administration)'s Supplier (Legal Provider) data
SMT	Senior Management Team
SO	Supervising Officer
SOP	Single Operating Platform
SPG	Strategic Partner Gateway
SPIP	Separated Parents Information Program		Organises parent meetings with moderator.
SPO	Senior Probation Officer
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
SR	Service Release		Used by nDelius application team to reference releases
SRO	Senior Responsible Owner	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-role-of-the-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.
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	http://www.justice.gov.uk/tribunals/sscs	As in 'Social Security and Child Support Tribunal', which deals with appeals about benefits decisions.
SSG	Small Systems Group		App making people at ICT
SSOT	Single Source Of Truth
SSP	Shared Services Programme
SU	Service User		An offender in probation parlance
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	https://www.usability.gov/how-to-and-tools/methods/system-usability-scale.html	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	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_estimate	Rough guess of how much a project will cost. See also ROM and PIDOOMA.
Segregation Unit	Also known as Seg, Solitary Confinement, SCU & CSC
SoS	Secretary of State	https://www.gov.uk/government/ministers/secretary-of-state-for-justice	Referring to the Justice Secretary, the minister who heads up the department.Not to be confused with the Morse code distress signal, SOS.
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	https://www.tpp-uk.com/products/systmone	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.
TBD	To Be Decided
TC	Therapeutic Community
TCEP	Transforming Compliance and Enforcement Project/Programme
TED	Tenders Electronic Daily	http://ted.europa.eu/TED/main/HomePage.do	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.
TIL	Today I Learned
TLA	Three Letter Acronym
TNA	The National Archives	www.nationalarchives.gov.uk	Can also mean something rude.
TPM
TR	Transforming Rehabilitation
TSP	Thinking Skills Programme		An intervention that deals with domestic violence issues
TTG	Through The Gate
TTP	Technology Transition Programme		Replacement for DOM1 and DISC IT programme.Move to MS Asure cloud based service, Office 365.
TVM	Transaction Volume Model
TW3	The Way We Work
Throughcare	Also known as 'Resettlement'		Preparing prisoners for release, including issues such as accommodation, benefits, etc
ToR	Terms of reference		Not to be confused with Glastonbury Tor.
Traka	Traka key systems only allow authorised users to access prison keys, ensuring they remain accounted for at all times.	https://www.traka.com/en/site/traka/applications/key-management/
UAL	Unlawfully At Large
UAT	User Acceptance Test
UC	Universal Credit	https://www.gov.uk/universal-credit/overview
UI	User Interface
UKTI	UK Trade & Investment
UPW	UnPaid Work
UX	User Experience
VC	The Virtual Campus
VIS	Victims Information Service
VLE	Virtual Learning Environments
VMT
VO	Visiting Order		Visiting credit for prisoners in the form of a reference number. Usually 2 a month.
VP	Vulnerable Prisoner
VPS	Virtual Private Server
VPU	Vulnerable Prisoner Unit
VSR	Victim Summary Reports
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.
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
WFH	Work From Home
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).
WTAF	What the Actual Fuck?
WTF	What The Fuck
WTFF	What the Flying Fuck?
WTG	Web Technology Group	http://www.webtechnologygroup.co.uk/	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.
XFP
XOD	Shift swap, shorthand used in some prisons		May have also rendered this as EXOD or X-OD
Xhibit	Crown Court IT system	http://xhibit.justice.gov.uk/	Note that this system is not used by Magistrates Courts
YCS	Youth Custody Service
YJAF	Youth Justice Application Framework
YJB	Youth Justice Board
YOS	Youth Offending Service
YOT	Youth Offending Team	http://www.justice.gov.uk/youth-justice/courts-and-orders/youth-offending-teams
nDelius	Probation IT System
offloc	Offender Location report	http://bigbookofacronyms.herokuapp.com/acronyms?search=CDE	The old name for the Common Data Extract.
pdr			Matthew Coates mentioned this in Digital Services All-hands meeting.
tl;dr	too long; didn't read		Make it snappy!
tma;dr	Too many acronyms; didn't read.		One made up especially for the civil service.
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