Departmental Overview: The performance of the Home Office 2013-14
Published on:This Departmental Overview is one of 17 we are producing covering our work on each major government department. It summarises our work on the Home Office 2013-14.
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Inspection: A comparative study
Published on:The NAO acknowledges the vital role played by inspectorates but identifies inconsistency in the extent to which they are independent of government and in their reporting arrangements, which can limit their impact.
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Departments’ oversight of arm’s length bodies: a comparative study
Published on:There is no collective understanding of what type of oversight is appropriate and cost effective for different types of arm’s length bodies.
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The new generation electronic monitoring programme
Published on:The case for a huge expansion of electronic monitoring using GPS was unproven, but the Ministry of Justice pursued an overly ambitious and high risk strategy anyway. Ultimately it has not delivered.
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Implementing reforms to civil legal aid
Published on:The MoJ is on track to make significant and quick reductions in its spending on civil legal aid. But it is less clear to what extent it has met its objective of targeting legal aid at those who need it most.
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Departmental Overview: The performance of the Ministry of Justice 2013-14
Published on:This Departmental Overview is one of 17 we are producing covering our work on each major government department. It summarises our work on the Ministry of Justice during 2013-14.
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The Criminal Justice System: Landscape Review
Published on:Major changes are being made to the criminal justice system, however much remains to be done to tackle inefficiency within the system.
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Probation: landscape review
Published on:The National Audit Office has today published a review, which summarizes the main elements of the reform currently under way in the probation sector, and identifies the key issues now facing those involved in probation.
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Transforming Rehabilitation
Published on:Probation services have been restructured on time and within cost targets during a period of major change but operational problems and risks to further service transformation need to be resolved if re-offending levels are to reduce.
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Departmental Overview: The performance of the Home Office 2012-13
Published on:This Departmental Overview is one of 17 we have produced covering our work on each major government department. It summarises our work on the Home Office 2012-13.
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Managing the prison estate
Published on:The current strategy for the prison estate has provided good quality accommodation, but has resulted in the closure of several prisons that were performing well.
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Managing and removing foreign national offenders
Published on:The Home Office has made slower progress than expected in managing foreign national offenders, despite increased resources and tougher powers.
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Departmental Overview: The performance of the Ministry of Justice 2012-13
Published on:This Departmental Overview is one of 17 we are producing covering our work on each major government department. It summarises our work on the Ministry of Justice during 2012-13.
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Financial sustainability of police forces in England and Wales
Published on:Police forces have successfully reduced costs since 2011, but do not have a clear understanding of the demands placed upon them or of the factors that affect their costs.
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Upgrading emergency service communications: the Emergency Services Network
Published on:The Emergency Services Network is one of the most technologically advanced systems worldwide and is set to replace the existing emergency services communication system, Airwave. However several risks have been highlighted.
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2012-13 review of the data systems for the Home Office
Published on:Review of a sample of the data systems underpinning the input and impact indicators in the Home Office’s Business Plan, Common Areas of Spend and wider management information.
This review was carried out on the 2012-15 Business Plan. Revised Business Plans were issued in June 2013. -
Funding of women’s centres in the community
Published on:The NAO has prepared this briefing for the Justice Select Committee in support of its inquiry into women offenders. The briefing looks specifically at the new funding arrangements for women’s centres in the community, which have been funded partly by the Ministry of Justice, the National Offender Management Service, and partly by probation trusts since 2009.
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2012-13 review of the data systems for the Ministry of Justice
Published on:Review of a sample of the data systems underpinning the input and impact indicators in the Ministry of Justice’s Business Plan, Common Areas of Spend and wider management information.
This review was carried out on the 2012-15 Business Plan. Revised Business Plans were issued in June 2013. -
Financial statements of the Youth Justice Board 2012-13
Published on:Amyas Morse, head of the National Audit Office, has today qualified the accounts of the Youth Justice Board (YJB).
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Police procurement
Published on:Police forces in England and Wales could make savings by working together to improve their buying power for essential goods and services