
Rebuilding our drug services
In part 2 of her Review of Drugs, Dame Carol Black says our drug treatment and broader support services need rebuilding.
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In part 2 of her Review of Drugs, Dame Carol Black says our drug treatment and broader support services need rebuilding.
The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies tracks (downward) trends in criminal justice spending and staffing
Home Affairs Committee urges government to prioritise policing funding or risk consequences for public safety and criminal justice.
Services are in a cycle of disinvestment, staff depletion, and reduced capacity, and this is due to get worse; in 2020 ring-fenced public health funding will end, posing additional risk to the areas of highest need.
Collective Voice highlights six key challenges which, together, are making substance misuse treatment face a perfect storm. Can you add to the list?
Latest State of the Sector report from the Recovery Partnership finds that our capacity for drug and alcohol treatment is falling year on year.
7% more people supervised by the probation service died last year with 233 individuals taking their own lives.
Will the prospect of saving billions of pounds (if Pentonville prison were closed, selling off the land to developers would probably generate several hundred million pounds alone), tempt the Chancellor and Justice Secretary to shift justice policy in a very different direction?
Latest official police workforce stats. Given our current fixation on reducing the budget deficit, it’s hard to imagine that next year’s workforce figures will show anything other than a further decrease.
The UK Justice Policy Review The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies has been publishing the UK Justice Policy Review for the last four years, in its