While guidance is clear that police protection should be exceptional and time-limited, in practice, operational pressures, resource constraints and risk aversion mean that children may still spend ...

Children's Commissioner says custodial remand must not be a waiting room for children whose real need is care, housing or ...

It is estimated that sudden and unexpected deaths in epilepsy  (SUDEPs) make up around 0.15% of deaths a year in the UK. From ...

Fortunately, attested to by the publication of: The Role of Food in Rehabilitation and Resettlement: Good Food and Good Lives ...

Cassia Rowland from the Institute for Government sums up overall government performance in the last of her series of ...

This is a guest post by Harry Annison and Daniel Birungi from the University of Southampton. The latest paper (free to access here) from our ‘Rehabilitating Probation’ ESRC research project draws out ...

Prison staffing. There were 22,534 FTE band 3-5 prison officers in post on 30 September 2025. These are the key operational grades in public sector prisons; consisting of band 3 p ...

This lack of time out of cell undermines efforts to reduce reoffending and contributes to poor mental health and disengagement, it added. Purposeful activity, including education, work, and offending ...

The Week in Justice 16 November 2025 As the headlines continued to focus on prisoners wrongly released, the government also published its plans to reform what happens to girls in custody. Perhaps the ...

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 ...