The report concludes that probation services are particularly well-placed to recognise and address the needs of ex-service personnel in contact with the criminal justice system. It makes four ...

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

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 ...

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

Prison staffing. There were 22,534 FTE band 3-5 prison officers in post on 30 September 2025. These are the key operational grades in public sector prisons; consisting of band 3 p ...

This is a guest post by Harry Annison and Daniel Birungi from the University of Southampton. The latest paper (free to access here) from our ‘Rehabilitating Probation’ ESRC research project draws out ...

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 ...

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 ...

T he Inspiring Futures research report “ An Evaluation of the Meaning and Impact of Arts Programmes in Criminal Justice Setting s” has just (3 June 2024) been published. Funded by the Economic and ...