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On probation

Colin Allars, incoming Director of the National Probation Service, has told The Guardian that the public sector should not expect to be the 'monopoly...

11 November 2013
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Criminal justice thinking should be tackled

Rebecca Roberts, senior associate at the Centre, has written a new blog post on the challenge of prison abolitionism. She writes:

'The domination of criminal justice thinking and practice will be difficult to shake – it’s hard enough, even with a 5 year old. And yet, there is

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11 November 2013
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Looking for good prison practice

We're looking for examples of policies or practices in UK prisons that are improving the conditions or enhancing the rights of inmates.

There's more information here on how you can send us your thoughts and ideas.

7 November 2013
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Punishing women with prison

Jenny Earle of the Prison Reform Trust argues that 'reducing women’s incarceration is not just a criminal justice issue, it involves a range of social equality and social justice issues that women face and addressing them will increase 'women’s autonomy, opportunities, and dignity....

6 November 2013
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A&E overcrowding may cost lives

The NHS is short of 600 consultants needed to provide a consultant-led A&E service at every hospital for at least 16 hours a day and Sir David Nicholson, outgoing Chief Executive of NHS England, blames cuts to social care for the problems experienced by A&E units,...

6 November 2013
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School for two year olds?

Baroness Morgan, chair of Ofsted, has called for children as two years of age to be enrolled at school in order to raise ‘dire’ standards of education, reports...

5 November 2013
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Probation privatisation: making the sums add up

We have come rather late to this post on how the Transforming Rehabilitation sums might add up. It was publised back in June on the Buying Quality Performance website.

'Despite the rhetoric about a “rehabilitation revolution”,' writes Richard Johnson, 'this is the outsourcing of probation...

5 November 2013