The newest additions to the Butler Trust’s Knowledge Exchange site for prison, probation and youth justice practitioners.

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

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 ...

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 ...

Everyone knows that finding work is a key component to going straight; a factor which is confirmed by the evidence base. There are four key reasons why employment promotes desistance: An individual ...

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 ...

This is the third in a series of occasional posts on the work that EP: IC Consultants have undertaken consulting with people in prison on a series of health-related issues. Dr Lucy Wainwright, Donna ...

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 ...

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