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

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