Its overall conclusions is that the current system for diverting children from the criminal justice system to be fragmented ...

A transformative vision for the future of Further Education in supporting people leaving prison or on probation.

R epeat offenders are continuing to “cause mayhem” in their communities thanks to the failure of prisons to provide education ...

Previous analysis by the Institute of Alcohol Studies estimates that alcohol consumption costs the economy £5.06 billion a ...

A new (26 September 2025) report from the Prison Reform Trust, written by David Cross and developed through a prisoner-led ...

Last Friday (19 September 2025) Collective Voice published a Womaninfesto with the aim of improving drug and alcohol treatment for women. The report was written by the Women’s Treatment Working Group ...

This is a guest post by Jon Collins, Chief Exec of the Prisoners’ Education Trust. Back in April 2022 I attended the first market warming event for the procurement process for new contracts to deliver ...

Yesterday (31 July 2025), the Ministry of Justice published its Artificial Intelligence Action Plan which it says sets out how tech will cut reoffending and make streets safe. The accompanying press ...

The latest Academic Insight from HMI Probation focuses on the purpose, value and functioning of knowledge partnerships in youth justice. Dr Sean Creaney and Dr Jayne Price describe how these ...

Last week (17 July 2025), HMPPS published its second annual report on the IPP sentence, covering the 2024/25 financial year. It sets out the action taken “to support those serving the IPP sentence in ...

A much shorter than usual blog post today but I thought you might find these links useful. Yesterday (15 July), the MoJ published a map of all its properties as well as lists of them all divided into ...

This a guest post by Dr Miranda Bevan, King’s College London, who provides the secretariat to the APPG. Children and young people have told an Inquiry conducted by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on ...