Tags are keywords. I put tags on every post to help you find the content you want. Tags may be people (Dominic Raab, say), organisations (The Howard League, PRT), themes (women offenders, homelessness) or specific items (heroin, racial disparity, ROTL). If you’re looking to research a particular issue, they can be invaluable.
The government is failing to provide and maintain safe, secure and decent prisons and its flagship initiatives to address this have not delivered, according to the National Audit Office.
The National Audit Office’s latest progress report on the court modernisation programme finds it is behind schedule.
The shocking scale of the failure of the Transforming Rehabilitation probation reforms revealed in numbers.
The National Audit Office’s departmental review of the MoJ shows the extent of the problems it faces.
Universal Credit has taken significantly longer to roll-out than intended, may cost more than the benefits system it replaces, and the DWP will never be able to measure whether it has achieved its stated goal of increasing employment.
National Audit Office verdict: “Modernising the justice system is an ambitious challenge. HMCTS has improved its approach, but overall it is behind where it expected to be and significant risks remain.”
NAO finds a total of £342 additional payments promised to Community Rehabilitation Contracts but thinks they may fail to hit payment by results targets.
National Audit Office urges the Home Office to do more to tackle the problem of cybercrime with prosecutions and convictions rare despite 1.9m crimes last year
National Audit Office investigates the very long backlog of cases at the parole board with very many prisoners serving longer than courts intended.
New National Audit Office report highlights major inefficiencies and concludes that the prosecution and court process are not delivering value for money.
PbR schemes now account for at least £15 billion of public spending in the UK including the Work Programme, the new private probation contracts and numerous homelessness and substance misuse schemes. Despite extensive negative media coverage, neither the Cabinet Office nor the Treasury currently monitors how PbR is operating across government.
£2.3 billion was cut from police budgets in the five years since 2010/11 – a cut of between 12% and 23% for individual police forces. These figures are from the recent (4 June 2015) National Audit Office report: “Financial sustainability of police forces in England and Wales”. NAO reports are invaluable, in my opinion, because the organisation has no political axe to grind and merely examines costs and performance as fairly as possible.
