Participating inspectorate: HM Inspectorate of Probation

The Criminal Justice Chief Inspectors' Group has finalised its business plan. This sets out the programme of inspections of the Criminal Justice System for 2023-25 in which two or more of our inspectorates will be working together.

This report follows up on the ‘state of the nation’ report, published in January 2021, which outlined how the COVID-19 pandemic had severely disrupted services across the criminal justice system.

A major inspection has found poor support for people with mental health issues as they progress through the criminal justice system in England and Wales.

Inspectors labelled the findings “disappointing” and said too little progress had been made since the last review in 2009.

An independent review of neurodiversity in the criminal justice system, commissioned by the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice.

The Criminal Justice Chief Inspectors’ Group has finalised its business plan. This sets out the programme of inspections of the Criminal Justice System for 2021/23 in which two or more of our inspectorates will be working together.

Children and young people released from young offender institutions are getting too little support in the community and are being “set up to fail”, according to a new report.

HM Inspectorate of Probation and HM Inspectorate of Prisons followed the experiences of 50 children and young people released from all five young offender institutions across England and Wales. This report looks at the support they received from youth justice services in their first three months after release.