Home Office appoints new Windrush compensation scheme adviser
26 Apr 2021 Justice & Home Affairs
Home Office appoints new Windrush compensation scheme adviser
Appointment comes eight months after recruitment opened
Mitie lands £90m contract for quarantine-compliance checks
16 Apr 2021 Justice & Home Affairs
Mitie lands £90m contract for quarantine-compliance checks
Home Office says new service will visit up to 10,000 people a day who are supposed to be isolating at home
Auditor sought to scrutinise work of MoJ
15 Apr 2021 Justice & Home Affairs
Auditor sought to scrutinise work of MoJ
Government Internal Audit Agency offers up to £117,800 a year for the right candidate
Home Office appoints director of homeland security
08 Apr 2021 Justice & Home Affairs
Home Office appoints director of homeland security
Former National Cyber Security Centre strategy director will lead Office for Security and Counter Terrorism
HMCTS could need ‘several years’ to deal with pandemic backlogs
30 Mar 2021 Justice & Home Affairs
HMCTS could need ‘several years’ to deal with pandemic backlogs
Constitution Committee report says rule of law is at risk because of delayed hearings, with the most vulnerable people the hardest hit
Priti Patel insists new asylum seeker plans do not break international law
24 Mar 2021 Justice & Home Affairs
Priti Patel insists new asylum seeker plans do not break international law
Government accused of ‘unjustly differentiate between the deserving and undeserving refugee’
Prisons chief Jo Farrar promoted to MoJ second perm sec
17 Mar 2021 Justice & Home Affairs
Prisons chief Jo Farrar promoted to MoJ second perm sec
Newly-created role brings together responsibility for HM Prison and Probation Service and three other delivery agencies
Next immigration watchdog appointed despite opposition from MPs
16 Mar 2021 Justice & Home Affairs
Next immigration watchdog appointed despite opposition from MPs
Home affairs committee refused to endorse David Neal, citing "insufficiently robust" recruitment process
Ministers commit to banning gay conversion therapy after advisers quit
15 Mar 2021 Justice & Home Affairs
Ministers commit to banning gay conversion therapy after advisers quit
Three members of government LGBT+ advisory panel have quit, citing a "lack of engagement" and "hostility" towards LGBT+ people
Civil servants 'kept in the dark' during decision to delay Brexit checks
12 Mar 2021 Justice & Home Affairs
Civil servants 'kept in the dark' during decision to delay Brexit checks
Move to delay import checks by six months the "latest example" of ministers excluding officials from decision making, union says
Government equality adviser quits over 'hostile environment' for LGBT+ people
11 Mar 2021 Justice & Home Affairs
Government equality adviser quits over 'hostile environment' for LGBT+ people
Jayne Ozanne said LGBT+ advisory panel has seen “an increasing lack of engagement” from ministers
Home Office housed asylum seekers in ‘unsafe’ barracks during Covid pandemic
09 Mar 2021 Justice & Home Affairs
Home Office housed asylum seekers in ‘unsafe’ barracks during Covid pandemic
Department says it expects ‘highest possible standards from our service providers and have instructed them to make improvements at the site’