The UK prison service has begun recruiting officers from Nigeria and other countries under a new visa scheme to address ...

Each area will have a dedicated private or voluntary sector partner, responsible for unpaid work schemes, drug misuse programmes and training ... get through to a probation officer (stock image ...

Probation officers say they were overworked even before thousands of prisoners were released early.

"We are gripping the situation and supporting our hardworking staff by improving training and recruiting 1,000 new probation officers nationally to better deliver robust supervision and protect ...

The plans have been spearheaded by Lord James Timpson, the Government’s prisons officer and the former chief executive of the family-owned services business Timpson. The scheme aims to bolster the ...

Local businesses will work with prisons and probation officers on the councils while ... which collectively have thousands of stores across the UK, have been brought in to give a better ...