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In a report published today, HMICFRS is calling for police and partner agencies to improve how they work together to protect children.

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Joint criminal justice inspectors found some positive features in Bedfordshire Police’s two custody suites but also identified a lack of progress on key concerns from the previous inspection five years before.

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Lincolnshire Police’s crime recording arrangements have dramatically improved over the past 18 months, according to a new report.

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Today, we have published the West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service revisit letter.

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Today, HMICFRS has published our second inspection programme of fire and rescue services. This sets out our programme of inspections for 2020/21.

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The public receives inconsistent service from their local police forces, HMICFRS has said in a report published today.

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HMICFRS has today published our findings for the third, and final, group of forces inspected in the PEEL 2018/19 assessment. This group of 14 reports completes a full annual cycle of inspections of the 43 forces in England and Wales, following previous publications in May and September 2019.

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Children sexually abused by family members are going unseen and unheard in too many cases, while abusers evade justice, according to a new report.

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Today, Ofsted published a report with findings from a joint inspection of multi-agency arrangements for responding to children’s mental health in Portsmouth. The inspection was undertaken by HMICFRS, Ofsted, the Care Quality Commission and HMI Probation.

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Inspectors from HM Inspectorate of Prisons and HM Inspectorate of Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) assessed that Northumbria Police had a good understanding of demand for custody services and sufficient staff in all its suites to meet this.