The annual youth justice statistics (for the year 2020/21) are the first time we’ve had authoritative data to show the impact of COVID-19 on children in contact with the youth justice system. The statistics show a youth justice system succeeding in fewer children coming into the system, fewer children in… Work with offenders on concerns about the impact of the pandemic and persistent racial disparity...
This month’s issue of the Prison Service Journal focuses on the issue of care leavers and the criminal justice system. The lead article shares the findings of a substantial study into the experiences of looked after children in prison.The article: “After Care, After Thought?: The Invisibility of Care Experienced Men… Work with offenders on new research into an old problem...
The Ministry of Justice has finally published a Review of Custodial Remand of Children in response to the recommendations on children on remand made by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) in 2019. Although the number of children in custody has fallen considerably over the last twelve years,… Work with offenders on a new government review...
Most people in England and Wales significantly under-estimate the severity of current sentencing practices, according to the findings of a new survey published yesterday. The survey, commissioned by the Sentencing Academy and launched in the latest edition of the Prison Reform Trust’s Bromley Briefing Prison Factfile, reveals that despite increases… Work with offenders on a new survey on public perceptions of the length of prison sentences ...
Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service has published an update to its annual digest for the 2020/21 financial year. The original digest was published back in last July, it provides a range of facts and figures relating to prisons and probation and a belated minor update would normally only be… Work with offenders on growing concerns about the future of accredited programmes in prison ...
The Ministry of Justice has made limited progress on its Female Offender Strategy to improve outcomes for women in the criminal justice system because it has not prioritised investment in this work, according to a report published today by the National Audit Office (NAO). As regular readers will know, women in the… Work with offenders looks at a new National Audit Office report...
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...