Jan 30, 2024 · Last week’s publication (25 January 2024) of the annual youth justice statistics (for 2022/23) provide many positives and plenty of concerns. There were reductions in cautions and sentences for knife crimes involving children, a decline in the overall number of children being sentenced or cautioned and the lowest number of children in custody on record.

Nov 25, 2024 · The MoJ has just (21 November 2024) published Research to explore perceptions of what contributes to the effective delivery of Education, Skills, and Work peer mentoring in men’s prisons in England.Authored by Eve Tailor & Dan Jones, the research was commissioned to understand effective practice in Education, SKills & Work (ESW) peer mentoring in more detail and is based on 48 qualitative ...

Jan 7, 2025 · Courts. As readers will be well aware, the backlog in the courts is also at unprecedented levels. The latest data which shows the Crown Court backlog on 30 September 2024 illustrates the scale of the problem: there are 73,105 open cases compared to 40,862 in January 2020, immediately before the pandemic.

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Nov 7, 2024 · The current pressure on prison places has largely been driven by the significant increase in people receiving long custodial sentences over the last two decades. This growth in the long-term prison population inspired the Prison Reform Trust to launch its Building Futures Programme, to explore the experiences of people who will spend 10 or more years in custody.

Yesterday (13 October 2022) HMPPS published an Evaluation of Psychologically Informed Planned Environments (PIPEs). The evaluation, undertaken by a team from the Centre of Psychiatry, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, assessed the first five years of PIPEs operation in both prison …

Oct 8, 2018 · A new NHS England report summarises the findings of the first (scoping) stage of a service evaluation, evaluating the provision of secure services for detained young people, under 18 years of age, from England, between February and September 2016. This involved identifying every secure unit in Great Britain that could detain young people from England and establishing the basic characteristics ...

Mar 27, 2024 · At a time when the prison and probation services are crying out for resources, it seemed rather timely that the Ministry of Justice published its information release giving costs per place and costs per prisoner by individual prison last week (21 March 2024). The information release gives the total “direct resource expenditure” for all prisons for 2022/23 as £2,751,481,717 and the overall ...

Jan 10, 2025 · The MoJ yesterday (9 January 2025) published an evaluation of the Kaizen offending behaviour programme which is designed for adult males who have been convicted of sexual (SO), intimate partner violence (IPV) or general violence (GV) offences. The researcher, Rebecca Hubble, makes it clear that this is an uncontrolled study (there was no comparison group) so while the results are positive ...

Apr 5, 2022 · Revolving Doors has just (4 April 2022) published the first report from its Lived Experience Inquiry into Probation. The report is based on the views of 141 people with lived experience of probation and 35 probation practitioners.