A snap-shot of the key trends and issues our State of the sector research uncovered, our progress to address our previous commitments, and what we'll focus on over the coming year.

The Ministry of Justice has published the response to its consultation on the future of probation services. We give you the top five things voluntary organisations working in the criminal justice need to know.

We summarise the the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee third progress review on the Transforming Rehabilitation programme. It joins a host of other critical reports and adds to growing consensus that the programme was poorly designed.

How does support for personality disorder in prison compare to the community? A personal perspective from Derbyshire.

The changes currently proposed for the future of probation do not go far enough. We outline five recommendations to ensure the voluntary sector’s future role.

A closer look at the House of Common's Justice Select Committee report, “Prison population 2022: planning for the future”.

A closer look at how the the voluntary sector working in criminal justice is funded.

The challenges of voluntary organisations measuring their impact and introducing the Justice Data Lab.

Caroline Hattersley of Women@theWell is interviewed about identifying and responding to the needs of a diverse group of women and the challenges they are experiencing.

We look closer at staff and volunteer recruitment, and the diversity in the workforce.