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  • New chair announced for Veterans Review

    Stephen Phillips QC MP has been appointed as the new lead for the review of veterans in the criminal justice system.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • North Wales boost as prison contract is awarded to Lend Lease

    Multi-million pound boost for north Wales as Prisons Minister Jeremy Wright announces that Lend Lease will build a new prison in Wrexham.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Compulsory lie detector tests for serious sex offenders

    The UK’s first school for training highly-skilled probation officers to become lie detector examiners is underway.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Payment by results prison pilot continues to show falls in reoffending

    A ground-breaking pilot testing a new way of rehabilitating offenders continues to show marked falls in reoffending.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • 2,000 violent offences committed within 12 months of release

    Shocking figures showing the number of offenders who commit violence against a person, a sexual offence, burglary and theft offences in the 12 months after release from custody, have today been released by the Justice Secret…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Damian Green: new rehabilitation powers for magistrates

    Magistrates will be given new powers as part of the Government’s reforms of rehabilitation.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • London College of Fashion wins Prime Minister’s Big Society Award

    London College of Fashion is the latest winner of a Big Society Award, Prime Minister David Cameron has announced.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Change in function for two prisons to help create a fit for purpose prison estate

    Littlehey and Lancaster Farms prisons are to change function to hold solely adult male prisoners as part of the Government’s ongoing plans to create an efficient prison estate, which can best meets the needs of the populatio…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • New law will see support extended to 50,000 more prisoners

    A major gap in the criminal justice system that means 50,000 short-term prisoners walk out of prison with no support is finally being addressed, as the Offender Rehabilitation Bill received Royal Assent today.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Further funding boosts voluntary sector support

    Justice Minister Jeremy Wright announced that the pioneering Justice Data Lab pilot would be extended for a further year

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Reforms to help reduce reoffending come into force

    Reforms which will cut the amount of time some offenders need to disclose details of any low level convictions come into effect today, Justice Minister Simon Hughes.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Talks begin over contracts to tackle reoffending

    Crucial Government reforms aimed at overhauling the way offenders are managed have moved a step closer, as organisations bidding for new regional rehabilitation work have been invited to begin formal contract talks.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Funding boost for programmes that reduce reoffending

    Charities and social enterprises who use innovative ways to reduce reoffending in England have been handed a boost worth more than £2 million.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Annual Review of the Albanian Prison Directory

    British Ambassador speech on the Annual Review of the Albanian Prison Directory

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Important milestone for critical probation reforms

    A further step towards the Government’s reforms to rehabilitation has been announced today as probation trusts were informed that staff will be assigned to one of the new organisations responsible for managing offenders and …

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Young criminals must be punished, but education is the cure

    Doubling the time spent on schooling for young offenders will help cut reoffending #YouthCustody

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • SMEs to play key role in new prison construction

    More than 250 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have had a chance to bid to be involved in the construction of a new prison for north Wales.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • ‘Best in the business’ bidding to rehabilitate offenders

    Thirty bidders who have passed the first stage of a competition to win regional rehabilitation contracts and lead the new era in a fight against reoffending were named today by the Ministry of Justice.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Capita to deliver interim tagging contracts

    Justice Secretary Chris Grayling has announced that Capita will take over delivery of electronic monitoring on an interim basis by April 2014, bringing the next generation of tagging a step closer.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • New Probation Institute to drive expertise

    A pioneering new organisation delivering professional expertise and promoting skills for those working to drive down reoffending in the community is to be set up, Chris Grayling has announced today.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government