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Alison Macfarlane suggested that the radical statisticians may be interested in responding to this invitation to comment on this crime statistics review. The deadline is *10 March*. *Chris Kershaw** **Sent on behalf of the RSS **Social Statistics** Committee* *To join or leave our distribution list for **Social Statistics** Section meetings click https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?SUBED1=rss-social-stats&A=1 * *To access our website click** http://www.rss.org.uk/socialstatistics * *Join the Royal Statistical Society today, **for more details click** http://www.rss.org.uk/main.asp?page=1052* ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Chris Kershaw <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 6:32 PM Subject: National Statistician's Review of Crime Statistics To: Social Statistics <[log in to unmask]> I have been asked by the RSS Social Statistics Section Committee to draw attention of list members to the opportunity to contribute to an important review of crime statistics currently being undertaken by the National Statistician, Jil Matheson. The National Statistician has launched a web based invitation to comment on how crime statistics should be compiled in future. Anyone with an interest in crime statistics is invited to feed in their views, which will help shape the recommendations from the independent review of crime statistics she is currently conducting. The Home Secretary has invited the National Statistician to conduct an independent review of crime statistics with the aim of increasing public confidence in these statistics. The Home Secretary has decided that the publication of crime statistics should be moved out of the Home Office to promote greater trust and demonstrate their independence. The review aims to: consider gaps, discrepancies and discontinuities within crime statistics; recommend the best future location for the publication of crime statistics, and their associated data collection systems; and, produce an action plan for the implementation of recommendations from the UK Statistics Authority’s report *Overcoming Barriers to Trust in Crime Statistics: England and Wales* published in May 2010. The open 'invitation to comment' period closes at midnight on *10 March 2011*. The review is due to report at the end of April 2011. It is then intended to run a public consultation on the recommendations from the review. If you are interested in commenting on the review please follow this link http://www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/national-statistician/ns-reports--reviews-and-guidance/national-statistician-s-reviews/national-statistician-s-review-of-crime-statistics.html *Chris Kershaw Sent on behalf of the RSS Social Statistics Committee * ****************************************************** Please note that if you press the 'Reply' button your message will go only to the sender of this message. If you want to reply to the whole list, use your mailer's 'Reply-to-All' button to send your message automatically to [log in to unmask] Disclaimer: The messages sent to this list are the views of the sender and cannot be assumed to be representative of the range of views held by subscribers to the Radical Statistics Group. To find out more about Radical Statistics and its aims and activities and read current and past issues of our newsletter you are invited to visit our web site www.radstats.org.uk. *******************************************************