Inspection Reports

This inspection builds on two previous inspections on service delivery for women. In 2011, HM Inspectorate of Probation, together with HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate and HM Inspectorate of Prisons, completed a joint thematic inspection Equal but different? An inspection of the use of alternatives to custody for women offenders. This measured the progress being […]

Published: 19 August 2024

In this report we focus on recruitment and retention in the agencies that we inspect.

Published: 15 February 2024

Report: Counter Terrorism Joint Inspection – National security division and multi-agency arrangements for the management of terrorist offenders in the wake of terrorist attacks (PDF, 820 kB) Cymraeg: TBC Press release: Criminal Justice Joint Inspectorates ‘reassured’ by progress of counter terrorism efforts in England and Wales Action plan: TBC

Published: 20 July 2023

The Criminal Justice Chief Inspectors’ Group (CJCIG) has finalised its business plan 2023-25

Published: 27 March 2023

This report follows up on the ‘state of the nation’ report, published in January 2021.

Published: 17 May 2022

Report: A joint thematic inspection of the criminal justice journey for individuals with mental health needs and disorders (PDF, 1 MB) Cymraeg: Arolygiad thematig ar y cyd o’r daith cyfiawnder troseddol ar gyfer unigolion ag anghenion ac anhwylderau iechyd meddwl (PDF, 1 MB) Press notice: Criminal justice system failing people with mental health issues – […]

Published: 17 November 2021

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

Published: 15 July 2021

The Criminal Justice Chief Inspectors’ Group (CJCIG) has finalised its business plan 2021/23

Published: 21 June 2021

This report provides a cross-system view of how the criminal justice system reacted in the immediate aftermath of the first national Covid-19 lockdown (23 March to 10 May 2020), and of how the system has managed since. The cumulative impact on the system of the sweeping changes wrought by Covid-19 necessity is both clear and […]

Published: 19 January 2021

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

Published: 08 October 2019