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

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 ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

The House of Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee says prisons need to have reducing reoffending as their core purpose. The report sets out the current state of crisis in our prisons and wider ...

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 is the first in a series of posts looking into the detail of the Independent Sentencing Review whose main recommendations I summarised here. Today’s post looks at the first Chapter in Mr Gauke’s ...

The Government has today (22 May 2025) published its much-anticipated Sentencing Review which effectively sets the policy direction for criminal justice for the rest of this Government. The review was ...

Yesterday (14 May 2025), Clinks published the latest article in its online evidence library which I am lucky enough to curate. The evidence library was created to develop a far-reaching and accessible ...