Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Parliament’s spending watchdog has slammed government reforms to the UK probation system, saying they were ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Almost every contract to provide probation services in England and Wales is lossmaking, according to the ...

The Labour Party has damned the part-privatisation of the probation service as a “monumental failure” after a shocking BBC documentary revealed serious failings in the system. The Government has come ...

From the chaos in our transport system to his disastrous Work Programme, when it comes to failures in government Chris Grayling’s are second to none. But his part-privatisation of probation is perhaps ...

Reports published Friday revealed that environmental protesters in the United Kingdom were released from prison under “licence conditions” designed for terrorist or extremist criminal offenders, ...

An independent review should be carried out into the “struggling” Probation Service as it faces “chronic staff shortages”, “unmanageable workloads” and is “consistently weak” in protecting the public, ...

Thousands of prisoners are being released early, putting a strain on probation services. (PA) Thousands of prisoners are being released on Tuesday in a move campaigners warn will stretch probation ...

Justice secretary’s plan includes extra recruitment but head of service queries timings, with moves to bring forward releases starting in September Keir Starmer’s government will release thousands of ...

A thousand extra probation officers are to be recruited to keep tabs on freed offenders. Staff numbers will be boosted following a costly Government U-turn that will see privatised work taken back ‘in ...

Britain’s probation service is in chaos after a series of crippling computer failures over the past three weeks, with thousands of offenders’ case files lost, frozen or wiped. In preparation for ...