Police forces in England and Wales have improved their handling of antisocial behaviour in the past two years, but there are still significant variations in victim satisfaction levels, the...
The Home Office has defended its decision to nominate Tom Winsor, the lawyer who undertook a controversial review of police pay, as the preferred candidate to become the next chief inspector of...
Ministry of Justice plans for more private sector prisons are expected to bring innovation and cut re-offending. But critics are warning about the risks to staffing levels and an erosion of...
Last summer’s riots inflicted untold misery on individuals and businesses across England. But the views and concerns of those who suffered are now being heard loud and clear thanks to the work of...
Senior Scottish police officers have threatened legal action over what they claim are attempts to protect younger colleagues’ jobs at the expense of older officers when the eight forces are merged...
A new VAT liability could cancel out the savings from creating national police and fire & rescue services in Scotland, the Scottish Liberal Democrat leader has claimed.
Every young person out of work for more than a year should be given a publicly funded ‘Youth Job Promise’, according to the independent experts examining last summer’s riots.
Local authorities will be able to charge a levy on drinking establishments with late-night licensing under the government’s crackdown on alcohol abuse.
The £80m programme to equip frontline police officers with mobile technology devices has achieved only basic benefits and is not yet providing value for money, auditors have found.
More than 2,000 police support jobs face the axe in the coming year, ahead of reform of Scotland’s eight regional forces into a single national police service.
Scottish local government leaders have accepted that the country’s eight regional police forces will be merged into a single national service, but say councils must be fully involved for the change...
Councils are detecting much more fraud but there’s still plenty of places to hide, warns the Audit Commission’s chair. Criminals are finding new ways of plundering public money
The auditor general has been unable to give an audit opinion on the 2010/11 Courts Service Trust Statement accounts due to inadequate records on the fines, confiscation orders and penalties collected.
The lack of checks on small-scale spending across police forces poses a ‘major risk’ to public money and could damage the reputation of the police service itself, inspectors have warned.
Scottish ministers’ plans to create single national forces for the police and fire & rescue services could unravel if they are rushed through, CIPFA has warned.
The government has abandoned plans to abolish the Youth Justice Board and bring its functions into the Ministry of Justice, citing ‘considerable opposition’ both in and outside Parliament.
