Unlocking Potential

   Failings in secure institutions for children are all too familiar, but a report out today paints an equally disturbing picture of life i...

  We learned last month t hat the Oasis Restore Secure School was to close temporarily following a monitoring visit by Ofsted which raised c...

  Last night I finished watching the excellent if harrowing BBC series on the 1988 Piper Alpha disaster- a tragic and catastrophic case stu...

  21,000 currently occupied prison places -almost one in four- do not meet fire safety standards, MPs have been told . In a letter sent in J...

  If the Independent Review of Prison Capacity was designed to remind the public how badly the last government managed the penal system, it...

  It’s Groundhog Week for   youth custody, as the Justice Secretary is told today to take urgent action to improve Oakhill Secure Training ...

  Quietly published last month was the latest annual report of the Crown Premises Fire Safety Inspectorate, (CPFSI) the body which enforce...