More support must be provided to children sleeping rough in Britain. Not only would this alleviate suffering, it would also reduce the long-term costs to the public purse, argues Emilie Smeaton
It’s supposed to be lighter touch but it is certainly tougher. The Audit Commission’s first area assessments were revealed this week – and put up on the Oneplace website for everyone to see. David...
Adults who had behavioural problems as children go on to commit 80% of all crime in the UK, according to a report by the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
The UK public sector is being cheated out of an estimated £27bn a year, and must tackle the problem to safeguard jobs and services, a leading fraud expert has said
Prison sentences shorter than 12 months should be scrapped to address the serious issue of overcrowding in the country’s jails, the Prison Governors Association has urged
Local government leaders have urged ministers to give councils a new ‘power of general competence’ as a pioneering mutual insurance scheme went into provisional liquidation this week
Whatever happened to that brave new political dawn? Things really did get better but, as New Labour gathers for its last conference before the election, the public couldn’t be less grateful. Demos’s...
The Audit Commission is urging councils to do more to fight fraud, warning that hundreds of millions of pounds are being lost each year due to false benefit claims and tax avoidance
Children detained in prisons and young offenders institutions are exposed to such ‘dire conditions’ that they are living in ‘modern day dungeons’, according to a hard-hitting report by the Howard...
MPs have criticised the growing numbers of under-14s put into custody and urged ministers to spend more money on community based punishments and preventative measures
Rights campaigners have expressed reservations about new court orders to limit the movements of convicted violent offenders even after they have served their sentence
MPs have questioned the ‘piecemeal’ growth of the Crown Prosecution Service, saying the agency has been given new responsibilities without a clear vision of what its role should be
The government’s £3m campaign to cut knife crime has so far failed to reduce the number of offences, figures produced by the Home Office on July 21 showed