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

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 ...

The Probation Service plays a vital role in public safety, supervising over 240,000 people in the community and supporting courts, prisons, and the police. And it serves as a stri ...

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

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

Prison overcrowding, staffing shortages and deteriorating infrastructure is having a ‘profound impact on the ability of prisons to deliver rehabilitation’, a new report published last week (14 ...

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 ...

The Week in Justice is a short email digest of the latest news and views on criminal justice matters in the UK (mainly England & Wales). It shares interactive headlines on new policy announcements, ...

Fortunately, attested to by the publication of: The Role of Food in Rehabilitation and Resettlement: Good Food and Good Lives we found others willing to tread this intellectual hinterland.

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 ...

The Neurodivergence in Criminal Justice Network (NICJN) reviews the evidence on working with neurodivergent people in contact with the criminal justice system ...