In a speech at London Probation Headquarters, the Lord Chancellor said: “Now is also a moment about the challenges that the service faces, and the simple fact is this, the service this ...

A new psychological therapy designed by a team of UCL-led researchers has been found to reduce rates of violence and aggression among male offenders with antisocial personality disorder (ASPD).

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood said the move was to ‘confront the reality’ of the pressures on the service.

Around 13,000 offenders did not complete rehabilitation courses as part of their sentences because the Probation Service was unable to deliver them in time under an “impossible” workload ...

She blamed the previous Tory Government that had left the probation service with a workload that was “quite simply impossible” to fulfil. In a major change, the courses where criminals are ...