The government's troubled families programme is likely to miss its target to 'turn around' 120,000 so-called troubled families, the influential House of Commons Public Accounts Select Committee argues...
Police in England and Wales used tasers more than 10,000 in 2013, The Guardian reports, an increase of 27 per cent in a year.
Figures from the annual...
A new joint report by the Probation and Police Inspectorates on integrated offender management (PDF, new window) has concluded that it is 'a...
The Department for Work and Pensions has today announced the cancellation of the troubled Atos Work Capability Assessement contract via Twitter.
Today we are announcing we are seeking a new provider to replace Atos for the Work Capability
...A critical report by HM Inspectorate of Constabulary says that victims of domestic violence faced a 'lottery' in the way they are treated. Theresa May, Home Secretary, has called for a 'radical change', saying that she would chair a group to consider the findings of the report,...
Following a Freedom of Information request, BBC Radio 4 reports that the amount spent by councils on services for young people fell, in real terms, from £1.2bn in 2010-2011, to £791m in 2012-2013. The decision to move...
On Monday we published UK Justice Policy Review 3, the latest edition in our annual series, supported by The Hadley Trust, tracking tracking year-on-year criminal justice and social welfare developments across the UK....
Government ministers and civil servants reguarly extol the virtues of a 'level playing field' when it comes to the delivery of public services. Neither the public, private nor voluntary sectors should have an unfair advantage when it comes to competing on cost, quality or delivery,...
MPs have called for penalties to be invoked against Atos Healthcare and Capital Business Services for their delays in assessing disabled and sick people's entitlements to Personal Independence Payments (PIPs).
The House of Commons Work and Pensions Select Committee cited figures showing...
'Government spends £187 billion on goods and services with third parties each year, around half of which is estimated to be on contracted out services'. So claims a report by the...
The government is failing to manage contracts with a host of private companies delivering a range of services to departments and members of the public, the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) ...
Contracts for prison and probation work in the UK are dominated by a few multinationals and large voluntary sector organisations, according to new research by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies.
The research, published in the...