The UK Government is lowering the length of service employees must have before they can bring an unfair dismissal claim against their employer. The UK Government has indicated that probationary ...

Justice secretary’s plan includes extra recruitment but head of service queries timings, with moves to bring forward releases starting in September Keir Starmer’s government will release thousands of ...

Thousands of prisoners are being released on Tuesday in a move campaigners warn will stretch probation services to breaking point. About 1,700 inmates are being freed from prisons in England and Wales ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The head of the UK’s probation watchdog has warned the service is failing in 97 per cent of areas, even before the government ...

Work by the Probation Service to keep people safe and manage risk of harm is “consistently insufficient”, an inspector has ...

Further progress is required to improve the probation service across Yorkshire and the Humber, HM Inspectorate of Probation has said.

Of the 24 probation units reviewed in the year to February 2025, 14 were rated ‘inadequate’ while 10 were deemed ‘requires improvement’ (Alamy/PA) Work by the Probation Service to keep people safe and ...