Justice & Home Affairs

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

Civil Service World brought together a panel of data experts from across the civil service to look at ways of increasing public safety through the better use of data. Mark Rowe reports

Prime minister demands 'explain or change' approach in battle to defeat ethnic injustice

As head of HM Courts and Tribunals Service, the Ministry of Justice executive agency that runs the judicial system in England and Wales, Susan Acland-Hood is overseeing wide-ranging reforms to the operation of courts across the country. She tells Richard Johnstone how the changes will improve access to justice

Successful candidate will work with home secretary to shape role of new Commission for Countering Extremism

New document reveals plans to probe central government responses to previous high-rise fires and impact of any failings on west London tragedy

Amber Rudd responds to call from statistics chief to follow ONS in scrapping system that allows select people to preview official figures

As the judge-led public inquiry opens on the three-month anniversary of the fire, legal experts call for a “repository of expertise” to build on lessons of past inquiries

Prison Officers Association rejects pay boost, as more public sector trade unions moot industrial action

Lammy Review points to disparity between UK’s ethnic breakdown and proportion of black and minority ethnic staff in prison service