Plebgate police ‘poor judgement’
The officer’s embroiled in the Plebgate row have admitted to poor judgement in talking to the media but stopped short of a full apology for their conduct, ...
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The officer’s embroiled in the Plebgate row have admitted to poor judgement in talking to the media but stopped short of a full apology for their conduct, ...
The Coalition is today expected to announce plans to charge temporary migrants a surcharge of £200 to cover the cost of their medical care in order to deter them from coming to the UK in search of free treatment, ...
Here is a list journals from our inbox that caught our eye this month:
Probation Journal: A special issue on innovation in probation, edited by Lol Burke. It includes articles on community engagement,...
There's lots of pictures in the papers today of Mayor of London Boris Johnson riding shotgun in a helicopter over Hong Kong during his China jaunt.
This is our favourite, courtesy of Imgur.
Nearly 30 million people are living in slavery around the world, according to the Global Slavery Index produced by the Australian-based Walk Free Foundation. India tops the chart, with almost 14 million people living in slavery conditions.
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'A baby in the South-east of England can expect on average to live between two and three year years longer than his or her contemporary in the North-west',...
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), an agency within the World Health Organisation, has officially classified outdoor air pollution as carcinogenic. In a report it claims air pollution from traffic and industrial fumes was a cause of lung cancer and was linked to bladder...
We enjoyed the tortured prose in a recent Ministry of Justice press release on the appointment of Colin Allars as the new Director of the National Probation Service.
'A director has been chosen to lead the new National Probation Service (NPS),' it begins, 'after the candidate who was due...
Parliament’s intelligence and security committee has launched an inquiry into the extent of mass surveillance undertaken by Britain’s spy agencies, according to reports in The...
Former Police Minister Nick Herbert has added to the pressure building on the government to make radical changes to the way the police service is regulated after scandals such as the Andrew Mitchell ‘plebgate’ affair, reports...
On September 18, 2013 the Centre held an Anti-Poverty Forum, to discuss how the risk of poverty for people in institutional care can be reduced.
Participants included experts and organisations representing prisoners, immigration detainees, looked after children, and people with...
Peter Oborne is in sharp form in today's Daily Telegraph, following a ruling by the Independent Police Complaints Commission that three police officers lied about their dealings with the former Chief Whip Andrew Mitchell.
The moment a police officer 'can no longer be believed is...