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MoJ rejects call to review Transforming Rehabilitation reforms in long-delayed response to 2018 Justice Committee report

Inspectorate sounds alarm after finding high levels of violence and self-harm at HMP Bristol

Union says foreign secretary wrote to Interserve “expressing unhappiness” over treatment of contract workers

Singh review finds poor coordination and outdated IT systems made it difficult to find everyone affected by demands for DNA evidence

Update also reveals Windrush taskforce has rejected 1,445 applications for documentation proving status

Plan goes beyond Dame Judith Hackitt’s 2018 review recommendations following west London tragedy

Case in which asylum detainee was told to return to the address where she was sexually exploited raises "grave safeguarding concerns", charity says

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

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

NAO head says the department failed to protect innocent students in 2014 English test cheating scandal

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

Chief people officer set to chair new group of cross-government networks to feed views into HR policy

Home Office needs a “Plan B“ in case vital tech components aren't ready in time, says public spending watchdog

Department confirms the move, which it says will allow it to prioritise most vulnerable cases

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 National Crime Agency DG Lynne Owens on its work

Department has put "strict controls on the use of bulk emails" after two data breaches, immigration minister Caroline Nokes says 

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

Department reports itself to Information Commissioner after hundreds of potential victims’ email addresses are wrongly shared

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

Scheme launched days after cabinet secretary admits there were "underlying structural causes" for scandal