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

A project from the Probation Institute, Anglia Ruskin University and Cogito Development Projects, funded by Forces in Mind Trust, has aimed to improve support for former Service personnel within the ...

Alongside the white paper the Government is launching a new police performance framework which aims to provide a clear set of ...

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

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 ...

A new (9 January 2025) report describes a study of clinical outcomes for participants of the learning disabilities and challenges (LDC) suite of accredited offending behaviour programmes. The LDC ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is a guest post by Jon Collins, Chief Exec of the Prisoners’ Education Trust. Back in April 2022 I attended the first market warming event for the procurement process for new contracts to deliver ...

Over the last five or so years, the probation inspectorate has massively increased its research output. It has explicitly set out to review, develop and promote the evidence base for high-quality ...

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 ...