Justice & Home Affairs

Union flags webinar frustration as 1,000 staff fear for jobs

1,000 staff to transfer from collapsed outsourcing provider to new Whitehall-owned company to maintain work across 52 prisons

Fewer than 10% of Community Rehabilitation Companies qualify for offender-reduction rewards

Perm sec Richard Heaton admitted to being “startled and stunned” by the over-ambitious scheme

Next stage in HMCTS modernisation programme could see eight closures

MPs get update on outsourced prisons contract as Cabinet Office reports public services are being maintained

Department seeks supplier to bring two programmes under single service-management structure in £200m-plus project

PCS union accuses department of casualising the workforce as proposal follows years of staffing cuts

Prime minister insists Home Office chief-turned-national-security-adviser can decline request to appear

NAO investigates why department was forced to redraw contracts and increase projected payments to CRCs by £342m

Staff at agency near the bottom of the civil service pay satisfaction table, but unable to take strike action

The government has recently set up a number of high-profile inquiries, including into child sexual abuse and the Grenfell Tower fire. As the terms of reference for the Grenfell Tower probe are finalised, this is how inquiries can earn trust

Think tank report on public inquiries finds lack of formal guidance, procedures and scrutiny measures

A court ruling this month means a Scottish Government plan to introduce a minimum price for alcohol will finally go ahead. Its introduction is a nothing short of a thing of beauty in policymaking

Action pre-empts driving examiner strike expected to start in early December

Senior officials defend rationale for new GPS tags but admit major failings of project now delayed by more than five years 

Reform think tank argues for greater devolution of powers to buy healthcare, employment, skills and offender management services

Union warns of strike potential over Courts and Tribunal Service’s hubs proposals

Justice secretary asks officials to commence “post-implementation review” that was promised when reforms were introduced in 2012

MPs raise concerns about department’s attitude to science advice after learning its acting chief scientific advisor is an economist

Ministry of Justice perm sec and other top officials from justice and health admit staff cuts have contributed to record high suicide rate in prisons

Michael Lockwood will become first director general of the Independent Office for Police Conduct

Minister says target to hire 2,500 new staff has passed the half way mark but union warns attrition rates are at an all-time high

Home secretary Amber Rudd said department is ‘tooling up’ with extra staff but real capacity will be created by new online system