Her Majesty’ Inspectorate of Probation has significantly increased the range of services it offers over the last two to three years. Historically, HMI Probation has focused solely on inspection work with a combination of inspections into particular probation divisions/areas or on themes such as probation work with drug using offenders.… Work with Offenders examines the latest research and analysis bulletin from HMI Probation...
Criminal justice and public health experts alike have become increasingly concerned about the risk that coronavirus poses to people in prison. Yesterday the World Health Organisation warned that prisons around the world can expect “huge mortality rates” from Covid-19 unless they take immediate action. The WHO recommendations include all visitors,… Work with Offenders looks at the options to protect prisoners from Covid-19...
Yesterday Dame Vera Baird, the Victims’ Commissioner for England and Wales, published a literature review on children’s experience of domestic abuse and criminality. The report, authored by Julian Molina and Jade Levell, looks at children’s experiences of domestic abuse and their criminality, including childhood criminal exploitation, serious youth violence and… Work with Offenders looks at a new literature review from the Victims’ Commissioner...
Everyone is worried about coronavirus but we now know that two main groups are particularly at risk: older people and those with underlying health problems. Our prisons hold large numbers of both groups. We know that almost 2,000 prisoners are aged 70 or older and that 36% of people in… Work with Offenders reviews current policy and thinking around risk within the prison system ...
The Chancellor of the Exchequer tends to talk about all the positive measures in his speech to the House of Commons and then the Treasury publishes the “Red Book” for the financial experts to pore over at their leisure. The bald figures are encouraging; the Ministry of Justice’s overall resource… Work with Offenders looks at the details of Rishi Sunak’s first budget...
Earlier this month, the Home Office published a fascinating 80 page research report entitled “The trends and drivers of homicide”. In this article, we share some of the main findings. Homicide trends The Home Office is keen to put our murder rate in some sort of context. The best estimate… Work with Offenders explores a new research report from the Home Office...
On Tuesday this week Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service finally published its “Draft Target Operating Model for the future of probation services in England and Wales”. As most readers will know, last May the Government finally accepted that the part privatisation of the probation service introduced by its Transforming… Work with Offenders looks at the detail of the new design of the probation service...
Last Friday (28 February 2020) the Probation and Police inspectorates published a joint report which concluded that the Integrated Offender Management scheme, designed to manage our most prolific offenders, had lost its way. What is IOM? The Integrated Offender Management approach was originally established in 2009 as the next stage… Work with Offenders looks at the detail of a new joint inspection report into how we manage our most persistent and problematic offenders....
New research from Barnardo’s provides a glimpse into the ‘invisible’ lives of the children and families of veterans in custody. The charity was commissioned by the Forces in Mind Trust to assess their unique needs as part of a two year project. This follows previous work by Barnardo’s supporting children affected by… Work with Offenders looks into a new report into the needs of veterans in custody and their families and children...
It’s easy to think of our government departments as long-standing and venerable, representing centuries of stability and tradition. However, that’s not always the case. The Ministry of Justice, for instance, was only formed in May 2007 when some functions of the Home Secretary were combined with the Department for Constitutional… Work with offenders looks at the rationale behind an interesting reshuffle....