UK councils benefit from unpaid labour
Boycott Welfare's freedom of information requests have showed that 62 per cent of the 271 councils who responded have used unpaid workers for the past two...
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Boycott Welfare's freedom of information requests have showed that 62 per cent of the 271 councils who responded have used unpaid workers for the past two...
Shelter commissioned YouGov to survey 4,085 adults - 3,675 of whom pay rent or mortgage in England, Wales or Scotland, the results showed that 70 per cent are already in arrears or are finding it hard to maintain their...
In his latest comment piece on our website the Centre's director Richard Garside argues that Sarah's law, which allows parents to ask the police if a person who has contact with their child has a record of child sexual offences, is a 'tokenistic drop in a very big ocean of child abuse'.
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Jon Shute and Juanjo Medina argue in a comment piece on our website that the government's 'Ending gang and youth violence' strategy is a 'shameful and appalling' waste of taxpayers' money.
They write:
'In... the era of austerity, £10 million of taxpayers’ money has been
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The Ministry of Justice has announced that 30 bidders have passed the first stage of a competition to win regional probation service contracts.
Bids come from a range of private firms, charities, British and multinational business. The contracts will for the first time require every...
A new report by the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has accused the British tax authorities (HMRC) of failing to pursue large companies’ tax avoidance scams.
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2013 will be remembered as the year that a series of scandals left the reputation of the Police in tatters, writes Archie Bland in The Independent....
It is 'almost certain' that the police fiddle crime figures, the Chief Inspector of Constabulary, Tom Winsor, told the House of Commons Home Affairs yesterday.
Mr Winsor is the latest figure to question the accuracy of police crime data....
It was reported last week that Capita will be taking over the Ministry of Justice electronic monitoring contracts from Serco and G4S in the new year.
Journalist Kate Belgrave offers a run down of recent press announcements and the...
The offender management system in prisons in England and Wales is dysfunctional and should be subject to a fundamental review, the Chief Inspectors of Prisons and Probation have concluded...
Wales Online reports that Plaid Cymru Westminster leader Elfyn Llwyd MP has branded plans for a new 'super' prison in Wrexham a 'nightmare'. A National Audit Office report states...