Justice & Home Affairs

Troubled background-checking agency appoints local authority boss to top job

Theresa May adds housing expert and architect to inquiry panel probing 2017 tragedy

Parliamentary committee voices ‘serious concerns’, including use of a digital-only system and numerous technical problems

Digital director will lead "transition away from legacy technology", NCA says

Minister reveals cost of building online service

In the latest instalment of our series on civil service leavers, we meet Andrew Morley, who after a working on policing and justice policy in the civil service, is now a consultant on public safety in the Middle East. He explains how he has used the skills he learnt as civil servant in a new environment

Justice secretary David Gauke says his plans will create a “smarter justice system that reduces repeat crime”

Lynne Owens says £2.7bn funding boost in forthcoming Spending Review will help tackle £37bn annual cost of serious and organised crime

Paying private-sector landlords to make their own buildings safe was against the principles of Managing Public Money, secretary of state was warned

Report urges better communication of the scheme after finding some EU nationals confused about whether they need to apply

MPs say Cabinet Office, Treasury and Major Projects Review Group have questions to answer over bungled payment-by-results reforms

As the UK faces increasingly complex global threats, our defence and security organisations must work more collaboratively than ever. Here, CSW hears from Gary Aitkenhead, chief executive of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory

As the UK faces increasingly complex global risks, our defence and security organisations must work more collaboratively than ever. CSW hears from key leaders on the challenges and opportunities ahead

As the UK faces increasingly complex global threats, our defence and security organisations must work more collaboratively than ever. Here, CSW hears from Madeleine Alessandri, the prime minister's adviser on national resilience and security, and Dr Christian Turner, the prime minister's adviser on international affairs, about the challenges and opportunities ahead

Government says it's "not the case" that it takes outsourcers at their word when they say they're providing high-quality accommodation

Courts programme boosts justice department's consultants bill

New system of follow-up reviews will update ministers on progress with improving worst prisons 

Calls to advice lines for child support and probate services "do not generate revenue", minister says

Prisons minister says state "better placed" to retain control of HMP Birmingham after stepping in last year

Probation services would be 'safer' under public ownership, chief inspector says

MPs say department has overseen seriously unacceptable practice in almost every area of the deportation system

Report calls for 'complete rethink of the structure, funding and oversight of forensic science'

Jon Thompson warns “that tone of some of the debate around the loan charge, and the spreading of unconfirmed rumours, risks creating additional concern for vulnerable customers”

Right to rent checks have “little to no effect” on controlling immigration, says judge in High Court case