While guidance is clear that police protection should be exceptional and time-limited, in practice, operational pressures, ...

Children's Commissioner says custodial remand must not be a waiting room for children whose real need is care, housing or ...

It is estimated that sudden and unexpected deaths in epilepsy  (SUDEPs) make up around 0.15% of deaths a year in the UK. From ...

Cassia Rowland from the Institute for Government sums up overall government performance in the last of her series of ...

Fortunately, attested to by the publication of: The Role of Food in Rehabilitation and Resettlement: Good Food and Good Lives ...

Prison staffing. There were 22,534 FTE band 3-5 prison officers in post on 30 September 2025. These are the key operational grades in public sector prisons; consisting of band 3 p ...

The Probation Service plays a vital role in public safety, supervising over 240,000 people in the community and supporting courts, prisons, and the police. And it serves as a stri ...

Prison overcrowding, staffing shortages and deteriorating infrastructure is having a ‘profound impact on the ability of prisons to deliver rehabilitation’, a new report published last week (14 ...

The Week in Justice 16 November 2025 As the headlines continued to focus on prisoners wrongly released, the government also published its plans to reform what happens to girls in custody. Perhaps the ...

Cassia Rowland from the Institute for Government sums up prison performance in the third of her series of performance tracker guest posts. Day-to-day spending on prisons fell substantially in the ...