The government has failed to take urgent action to address record crown court backlogs, with “devastating” consequences for victims and their families, according to an influential group of MPs.
Teenagers whose youth clubs closed amid austerity went on to perform less well at school and were more likely to become involved in criminal activity, new research has suggested.
The next government will have just days to avert a crisis in the prison service, with English and Welsh jails on the brink of running out of places, a leading think-tank has warned.
Most public services will remain worse in four years’ time than they were just before Covid-19 – and most of them were already worse than they were in 2010 – CIPFA and the Institute for Government’s...
Long-delayed reforms to modernise courts in England and Wales have placed an “unacceptable” burden on staff and risk making already long case backlogs even longer, MPs have warned.
The huge backlog of unaudited local government accounts has ramifications across government, including for entire departments and the NHS, the head of the NAO has warned.
Proposals to limit the response to emergency mental health calls will save “well over” 10,000 officer hours a month, Metropolitan Police chief has said.
