Jon Collins of the Prisoners' Education Trust reviews the latest performance figures in the shadow of looming budget cuts.

Inspectorate says that children in custody are being failed by having to live in establishments dominated by violence, ...

L ast 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 ...

A prison cannot outperform the quality of its frontline staff. This is because the role of the prison officer has a huge impact on the day-to-day lives of prisoners: they set the culture on the wing, ...

Inspectorate says that children in custody are being failed by having to live in establishments dominated by violence, disorder and lack of education with HMYOI Parc the lone exception. The COMPASS ...

This is the fifth in a series of posts based on perhaps the most important drug-related report of the current century, Dame Carol Black’s Review of Drugs. Today’s post looks at the section from that ...

Crest Advisory research find the effects of maternal imprisonment can be severe and long-lasting on children, leading to exclusion and exploitation. Clinks and Birth Companions report into the needs ...

As part of its 2020 European Drug Report published earlier this week, the EMCDDA also made available its annual statistical bulletin which contains the most recent available data on the drug situation ...

Last month I wrote about the MoJ’s new leadership model for HMPPS and what I could glean about the new ONE HMPPS model, questioning whether it was in fact a merger of the prison and probation services ...

A new (9 January 2025) report describes a study of clinical outcomes for participants of the learning disabilities and challenges (LDC) suite of accredited offending behaviour programmes. The LDC ...

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 ...