Jeremy Hunt's apologies for the failures at Southern Health ring hollow, given that he believes markets and not ministers should be accountable for our healthcare.
BBC Panorama exposed abuse at Medway Secure Training Centre — and a government policy that has gone off the rails.
Ken Fero's award-winning films about black deaths at the hands of the police in Britain record the continuing struggle to get justice. They have never been broadcast in the UK. Part of our partnership with the Unorthodocs programme of screenings and events.
For years the Howard League and others have warned of abuse of child inmates in secure training centres. Now the BBC’s Panorama programme has caught it on camera.
The UK government’s welcome depends on the size of your wallet.
Enforced isolation makes people ill and increases the risk of self harm. For one former governor a new report from the Prison Reform Trust is uncomfortable reading.
Already vulnerable children are going missing at an alarming rate. What is being done to protect them?
Without more radical reform, new for old prisons will repeat the mistakes of the past.
Gypsy and Irish Traveller prisoners represent 5% of the entire prison population of England and Wales. Let’s get their education right.
Corporations bleed what profits they can from disaster. Democracy is replaced by a business plan. An excerpt from Antony Loewenstein’s Disaster Capitalism: Making A Killing Out Of Catastrophe.
Story exposing UK government’s failures to protect victims of trafficking judged “best news piece” on modern slavery.
Slashed budgets, stressed workers and young people in desperate need across England and Wales. Something’s got to give.
