National Audit Office report says prison and health services are struggling to battle rapidly changing drug threats.

Part II of Brian Leveson's Court Review makes recommendations about court efficiency including more remote hearings.

Prison Reform Trust Bromley Briefing shows indicators on safety, use of force, purposeful activity and overcrowding all ...

Public Accounts Committee report into the efficiency and resilience of the probation service says it is teetering on the ...

A project from the Probation Institute, Anglia Ruskin University and Cogito Development Projects, funded by Forces in Mind ...

Yesterday (13 October 2022) HMPPS published an Evaluation of Psychologically Informed Planned Environments (PIPEs). The evaluation, undertaken by a team from the Centre of Psychiatry, Wolfson ...

Yesterday (18 July 2024) Adrian Usher, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) published the second Learning Lessons Bulletin in the post-release deaths series, highlighting the detrimental effect ...

I t was evident that there were multiple pressures impacting on probation staff including experiences of change fatigue, intolerable workloads and comparatively poor pay and conditions, which were ...

In October last year (2025), the Chief Inspector of Probation Martin Jones took the unprecedented step of pausing the inspectorate’s core inspection programme to try to drive up the probation ...