
What has the Justice Data Lab taught us about reducing reoffending?
The Justice Data Lab has been running for almost seven years now, what can we learn from it about what works in reducing reoffending?
Here you can find more than 750 posts tracking every major development in probation since 2011. You can trace the rise and fall of Transforming Rehabilitation, see the latest performance figures and explore new practice developments. If you’re looking for something in particular, try the search box below.

The Justice Data Lab has been running for almost seven years now, what can we learn from it about what works in reducing reoffending?

My new compendium of the latest data on probation: caseloads; types of supervision; court reports etc.

HMI Probation has commissioned a Rapid Evidence Assessment into probation caseloads – do you have research to contribute?

Penelope Gibbs of Transform Justice questions the evidence base of the probation accredited programmes currently being put out to tender.

The MoJ has formally launched the competition to provide unpaid work and accredited programmes in the 12 new probation regions.

Changing Lives “Free but not Free” programme used an arts approach to help women achieve positive change.

Ioan Durnescu on people’s experience of being on probation in another of HMI Probation’s Academic Insights.

Jake Phillips investigates the increasingly worrying trend of more people dying on probation.

A graphic look at the decline of the community sentence over the last decade.

The government’s response to the Justice Committee’s concerns about the second re-design of probation is not convincing.

Youth offending services are providing inconsistent supervision and support to children and young people who have committed minor offences.

Social media poll predictably found Chris Grayling was ranked as the least successful Justice Secretary. But who was rated the best?