A new (18 August 2025) report from the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change and Crest Advisory sets out a new vision for ...

A n Action Plan for Oakhill Secure Training Centre (STC) is due this month from the Justice Ministry to address profound and ...

The process has been protracted – the results were originally due to be announced in autumn 2024, with the new contracts ...

Dame Owers sums the whole issue neatly in her introduction: ...

On the last day of July, the MoJ published a range of different statistics, all of which make clear the full extent of the prisons and probation crisis. To be frank, it is just too grim for me to ...

Sean Creaney and Jayne Price highlight the purpose, value and functioning of knowledge partnerships in youth justice for HMI Probation.

C hildren and young people have told an Inquiry conducted by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Children in Police Custody (APPG) that being detained in a police cell can be a highly traumatic ...

Alexandra Wigzell and Claire Paterson-Young provide insights into progressive desistance practice in youth justice.

The chart I’ve reproduced below shows the overall rates of identified needs, for those with an OASys Layer 3 on 31 October 2024 comparing the custody and community caseloads overall. Of those with a ...

Clare Birtwistle of Manchester Metropolitan University guest blogs on reducing the over-representation of looked after children in the CJS ...

Alexandria Bradley & Sarah Waite guest blog on their qualitative evaluation of Greater Manchester's women's problem-solving court.