Justice Committee highlights endemic drug use in prisons and says dangerous culture of acceptance must be broken.

David Honeywell highlights the need to fully embrace the views and perspectives of those with lived experience of the CJS for HM Inspectorate of Probation.

A proven reoffence is defined as any offence committed in a one-year follow-up period that leads to a court conviction, ...

Cassia Rowland from the Institute for Government sums up their new Public Services Performance Tracker on policing.

In the year ending June 2025, there were 1.36 million defendants proceeded against at magistrates’ courts, an increase of 5% ...

The National Audit Office finds that since reunification, probation performance has declined, with significant staffing ...

Revolving Doors and Newton identify the hidden cost of prolific offending and recommend an effective response.

Last Friday (19 September 2025) Collective Voice published a Womaninfesto with the aim of improving drug and alcohol treatment for women. The report was written by the Women’s Treatment Working Group ...

This is a guest post by Jon Collins, Chief Exec of the Prisoners’ Education Trust. Back in April 2022 I attended the first market warming event for the procurement process for new contracts to deliver ...

The latest Academic Insight from HMI Probation focuses on the purpose, value and functioning of knowledge partnerships in youth justice. Dr Sean Creaney and Dr Jayne Price describe how these ...