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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...
As the dust settles on the US political crisis, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham's comment, reported by The Guardian, on what happens...
John Fassenfelt, Chairman of the Magistrates Association, is expected to warn about the ‘slow creep of a police state’ at a meeting in the House of Lords Today, according to The Times.
Professor Danny Dorling, University of Oxford, draws on his personal experience to argue that Jobseekers Allowance is a ‘lifeline between the bad options’ that young people face about their future. Read his comment piece in...
Mike Nicholson, admissions chief at the University of Oxford, has warned that Michael Gove’s exam reforms will ‘wreck’ the English education system, reports...
A survey conducted by YouGov has found that more than three quarters of gay, lesbian and bisexual hate crime was not reported due to fears it would not be taken seriously,...
The Trussell Trust, which runs Britain’s largest network of food banks, has called for David Cameron to launch an inquiry into food poverty as usage of food banks has tripled year on year, reports...
Writing on the Centre's website, Dr Ross Fergusson of the Open University argues that the government's policy on youth unemployment 'smacks of abandonment' of those disproportionately affected by the recession and lack of jobs. 'Young people do not choose the dole', he argues, 'they are denied...
Research by the University of York suggests that the Department for Work and Pensions may have significantly overestimated savings from the bedroom tax,...
Police Minister, Damian Green, has claimed that foreign police officers from countries with legal systems similar to the UK could soon be recruited to run forces in England and Wales, according to reports in...
