Justice & Home Affairs

PAC chair questions whether Community Rehabilitation Companies in flagship reform will be able to deliver the promised benefits

What do new technologies mean for border security in the UK? A recent CSW round table brought together academics and senior officials to explore the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead. Mark Rowe reports.

All participants in tax-appeal hearings to take part remotely during trial scheme

Ministers urged to take personal responsibility for implementing recommendations of HM Prisons Inspectorate in the wake of damming Liverpool report

Union says announcement of staffing milestone fails to acknowledge long-term headcount reductions

International development secretary Penny Mordaunt gives charities two-week deadline to confirm all concerns have been reported to Charity Commission

Inquiry by MPs found immigration and border system already understaffed, with problems likely to be compounded by uncertainty over Brexit

Study finds that a quarter of officers need to access six or more databases in working on a single case

Union flags webinar frustration as 1,000 staff fear for jobs

1,000 staff to transfer from collapsed outsourcing provider to new Whitehall-owned company to maintain work across 52 prisons

Fewer than 10% of Community Rehabilitation Companies qualify for offender-reduction rewards

Perm sec Richard Heaton admitted to being “startled and stunned” by the over-ambitious scheme

Next stage in HMCTS modernisation programme could see eight closures

MPs get update on outsourced prisons contract as Cabinet Office reports public services are being maintained

Department seeks supplier to bring two programmes under single service-management structure in £200m-plus project

PCS union accuses department of casualising the workforce as proposal follows years of staffing cuts

Prime minister insists Home Office chief-turned-national-security-adviser can decline request to appear

NAO investigates why department was forced to redraw contracts and increase projected payments to CRCs by £342m

Staff at agency near the bottom of the civil service pay satisfaction table, but unable to take strike action

The government has recently set up a number of high-profile inquiries, including into child sexual abuse and the Grenfell Tower fire. As the terms of reference for the Grenfell Tower probe are finalised, this is how inquiries can earn trust

Think tank report on public inquiries finds lack of formal guidance, procedures and scrutiny measures

A court ruling this month means a Scottish Government plan to introduce a minimum price for alcohol will finally go ahead. Its introduction is a nothing short of a thing of beauty in policymaking

Action pre-empts driving examiner strike expected to start in early December

Senior officials defend rationale for new GPS tags but admit major failings of project now delayed by more than five years