NIDP PROGRESS
The National Information Development Plan for Crime and Justice Statistics (cat. no. 4520.0) was released on 21 June 2005. The Plan is available from the ABS web site <www.abs.gov.au> or through the National Statistical Service web site <www.nss.gov.au>.
A Steering Committee will facilitate and guide the implementation of the Plan. Some activities under the Plan have already commenced. The first meeting of the Committee will take place late November, 2005. Steering Committee members include the Chairpersons of each of the National Centre for Crime and Justice Statistics Advisory Groups, nominees of the Police and Court Practitioner Groups, the Australian Institute of Criminology, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australasian Centre for Policing Research, the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, Queensland's Office of Economic and Social Research and the Australian Government Attorney-General's Department and the Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision.