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As the government introduces payment by results for prisoner rehabilitation, Channel 4 News looks at how the new scheme will work.
Chris Grayling says a “rehabilitation revolution” driven by payment by results will cut re-offending. FactCheck digs in.
Channel 4’s Dispatches receives a list of landlords renting to around 300 MPs who are claiming rent payments on expenses, as Equalities Minister Helen Grant is forced to defend her arrangement.
There are no hard statistics available on outcomes yet, which means we effectively have to take the minister’s word for it.
The number of inmates in British prisons will remain near record levels for six years after a government U-turn on sentencing reforms, Whitehall’s spending watchdog warns.
In the second part of a special series into the outsourcing of public sector work to private firms, we profile the big names which win the contracts as well as some of the controversies.
Barking and Dagenham borough has the highest risk of housing repossession in the UK, while West Dorset has the lowest, according to a new report by Shelter. But how does your area compare?
The Hillsborough Independent Panel has come up with a date, and today announced that it will relase all the documentation relating to the 1989 football disaster in Liverpool on 12 September. Someone who has been following the panel’s work very closely tells me that the revelations which come out of the documents will be “immense” and “very significant”. As to why, my source wouldn’t be drawn.
The high court hears details of the life of Tony Nicklinson, who lives with locked-in syndrome and is appealing for the right to ask a doctor to help him die.
The government has emphasised that while civil servants are being encouraged to vary their work journeys to avoid Olympic disruption, there will be no reduction in the amount of work they do.
Tens of thousands of Norwegians hold musical protests in towns across the country, following days of defiant testimonies by Anders Behring Breivik during his trial for the murder of 77 people.
It is rare to see Britain’s intelligence agencies, MI5 and MI6, in open battle with MPs from all parties, including the Deputy Prime Minister.
The government’s big society bank launched today. But its chairman has told Channel 4 News that all the good it might do could be outweighed by budget proposals to cap tax relief for philanthropists.
In the Queen’s speech in May there is expected to be an announcement that the ban on filming court proceedings will be lifted, writes ITN’s Head of Compliance, John Battle.
Channel 4 News reveals evidence of failings inside Britain’s privatised court interpretation services. As Darshna Soni reports there are claims unqualified translators are covering criminal cases.