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, ...

The Alliance for Youth Justice (AYJ) yesterday (10 September 2025) published From exploited to exploiter? Preventing the unjust criminalisation of victims of child criminal exploitation in the ...

This is a guest post by the Chief Executive of the Parole Board, Cecilia French. The justice system can sometimes feel to victims and survivors of crime as though it is designed for everyone other ...

The most recent (29 August 2025) Academic Insight report, produced by Mark Durkin, summarises the COMPASS model which integrates key findings and principles from compassion-focused therapy, positive ...

This afternoon (2 September 2025) the Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood “laid before parliament” the Sentencing Bill, the major piece of legislation intended to implement the findings of David Gauke’s ...

Regular readers will be aware remember that in 2021 the Butler Trust launched a new resource aimed at everyone who works in a criminal justice setting. The Knowledge Exchange is an online library of ...

A new (29 August 2025) report published by the Prison Reform Trust highlights the need for enhanced support and policy reform to assist individuals on release after serving long-term prison sentences.