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 ...

Despite this the prison population remains virtually unchanged from last year – the most recent figure (26 January 2026) is 87,212 people in prison.

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

In October last year (2025), the Chief Inspector of Probation Martin Jones took the unprecedented step of pausing the ...

Introducing judge-only trials for around a quarter of crown court trials, known as ‘swift courts’ or the ‘crown court bench ...

Yesterday afternoon (26 January 2026), the Government finally published its policing white paper. ‘From local to national: a new model for policing’ which sets out a comprehensive package of reforms ...

The event highlighted key current issues and debates around parole in England and Wales, including transparency, implications of the Sentencing Bill, remote hearings, methods of risk assessment, and ...

L ast week (3 April 2025), Clinks published its latest annual annual State of the Sector report. For over a decade, Clinks has surveyed the voluntary sector working with people in contact with the ...

E arlier this week (10 December 2025), Clinks published the latest article in its online evidence library which I am lucky enough to curate. The evidence library was created to develop a far-reaching ...

As part of its 2020 European Drug Report published earlier this week, the EMCDDA also made available its annual statistical bulletin which contains the most recent available data on the drug situation ...