Justice secretary’s plan includes extra recruitment but head of service queries timings, with moves to bring forward releases starting in September Keir Starmer’s government will release thousands of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK should send fewer people back to jail for minor probation infringements if it is to end severe ...

Work by the Probation Service to keep people safe and manage risk of harm is “consistently insufficient”, an inspector has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The head of the UK’s probation watchdog has warned the service is failing in 97 per cent of areas, even before the government ...

Every probation service in the UK is failing to meet minimum standards as the service buckles under the weight of record staff shortages and huge caseloads, an investigation by The House magazine has ...

Thousands of prisoners are being released on Tuesday in a move campaigners warn will stretch probation services to breaking point. About 1,700 inmates are being freed from prisons in England and Wales ...

Supervision of all offenders in England and Wales is being brought back in-house after a part-privatisation was dogged by controversy and criticism. The public National Probation Service (NPS) will ...

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Of the 24 probation units reviewed in the year to February 2025, 14 were rated ‘inadequate’ while 10 were deemed ‘requires improvement’ (Alamy/PA) Work by the Probation Service to keep people safe and ...