The Ministry of Justice, Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service and the Office for National Statistics all publish a range of quarterly and annual statistical bulletins on a wide range of issues affecting the criminal justice system. The latest editions of a number of these statistical resources were published at… Work with Offenders takes a deep dive into the latest official statistics...
The MoJ has just announced that the government’s preferred candidate to be the next Chief Inspector of Prisons is Charlie Taylor. Mr Taylor is best known in youth justice and education circles. A teacher by profession, he was Head at two special schools for children with severe behavioural difficulties between… Work with offenders profiles the next chief prison inspector....
Dame Vera Baird was appointed Victims' Commissioner for England and Wales in June 2019, but you might be forgiven for thinking that she had been in post for much longer. She is putting all the skills and know-how she learnt throughout a long and successful career as a barrister, MP,… Work with offenders looks at the latest report from the Victims’ Commissioner....
Everyone knows that, after a home, finding a job is the most important factor for most people trying to put a life of crime behind them. We have plenty of research evidence to back up this commonsense assumption. The literature highlights four key reasons why employment helps people move away… Work with offenders investigates the latest data showing just how few offenders are in work....
1,000 new probation officers The Ministry of Justice announced today that frontline probation services will be boosted by a major new recruitment campaign looking to have a thousand extra probation officers in training by the end of the financial year. The announcement was made by Prisons and Probation Minister Lucy… Work with offenders looks at the detail of the new probation workforce strategy...
A big rise in the number of older people in prison Yesterday the House of Commons Justice Committee published a new report with recommendations from their inquiry into the challenges of managing an ageing inmate population. Older prisoners are the fastest growing group in the prison population. The number of… Work with offenders examines a new Justice Committee report....
The MoJ has published its evaluation of digital technology in prisons. Authored by a team of researchers at the University of Leicester (where there is an accumulation of international expertise in the subject), the evaluation looked at the impact of: in-cell telephony, whereby PIN telephones are installed within prisoner cells,… Work with offenders looks at the Ministry ofJustice’s new evaluation of digital technology in prisons....
Like most government agencies, the parole board is required to be transparent and accountable in its actions and publishes a formal annual report and set of accounts every year. This year’s annual report was published on Monday and, it is fair to say, makes for much more interesting reading than… Work with offenders does a deep dive into the parole board’s annual report....
The Justice Select Committee has just released a report on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Her Majesty’s Probation Service. The report, ‘Coronavirus (Covid-19): The impact on the probation system in England and Wales’ sets out how the pandemic has profoundly affected the way probation services are delivered. The… Work with Offenders looks at a new report from the Justice Committee...
Yesterday (Sunday 19 July), the Ministry of Justice announced the locations for 10 new “Nightingale Courts”. We all know about Nightingale Hospitals (the seven critical care temporary hospitals established by NHS England to ensure that the NHS wasn’t overrun by patients with coronavirus), but what exactly are Nightingale Courts? Although… Work with Offenders details the concept of nightingale courts announced by the MoJ...