Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Probation has today (18 January 2022) published a new report on the increasingly common use of electronic tags for people on probation. People on probation can be required to wear an electronic monitor either as a condition of leaving prison or as part of a community… Work with offenders on a new report from the probation inspectorate...
A new report published today by the Criminal Justice Alliance looks at the effectiveness of independent custody visitors at monitoring race and gender equality in police custody. Entitled “Just Visiting?”, the report is written by Amal Ali and Hannah Pittaway. About independent custody visitors Several mechanisms exist to scrutinise policing… Work with offenders looks at a new report exploring the effectiveness of independent custody visitors...
After all the changes to probation over the last decade – the privatisation and fragmentation implemented by Transforming Rehabilitation and the reunification to one national public body last summer – what’s it like working for the Probation Service as it enters its first New Year as a new entity? Anne… Work with offenders looks at how the reunified service is settling down....
We have ploughed through the report’s 208 pages to find 10 key facts and figures which we hope you will find of interest. 1: Restoring confidence in the criminal justice system This is one of the Home Office’s primary objectives and readers may find it interesting that the government department… Work with offenders digs through the annual report from Queen Anne’s Gate...
The way police officers have dealt with people during the pandemic, through the ‘4 Es’ approach, has strengthened public goodwill according to a new report published this week. “Policing the Pandemic” is a joint report by the crime and justice consultancy, Crest Advisory, and the Police Foundation, the UK’s policing… Work with offenders on an interesting report on best policing practice ...
Bimmy, who currently works for MOPAC as a Programme Officer, has been awarded an MBE for her support of the charitable sector over 30 years. Having lost both her parents at the age of 13, she cared for her younger siblings and elderly grandfather, and so her dreams of going… Congratulations to RSG agency worker Bimmy (Virinder) Kaur Rai who has been recognised for three decades of charity work by Her Majesty the Queen in the New Year Honours List....
Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons have published their latest report into the work going on behind the walls of our prisons. The inspection of HMP Manchester focused, like so many inspections this year, on the poor quality of the daily regime. The inspection which took place this September when we… Work with offenders on changes to the prison system...
Yesterday Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) published its Annual Report and Accounts for 2020 to 2021 which outlines how the agency performed in the year ending 31 March 2021. Inevitably, that performance was profoundly shaped by COVID with both the prison and probation service operating severely restricted models… Work with offenders digs into the detail of a pandemic-affected year...
Sue McAllister, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO), has published a ‘Learning Lessons Bulletin’ analysing investigations into 107 deaths of people in prison related to COVID-19. This is the second such analysis published by the Ombudsman, the deaths analysed in this bulletin occurred during the “second wave” of the virus… Work with Offenders on today’s Prisons Ombudsman report...
A new report, A Criminal Waste, explores the issue of people offending whilst receiving support from the Fulfilling Lives programme, examining the links between multiple disadvantage and offending and making recommendations for a whole system approach to reduce the human and financial costs of involvement with the criminal justice sector. Fulfilling lives The Fulfilling… Work with offenders looks at a new study of multiple disadvantage, offending and system failure ...