Associate director in public services @Instituteforgov. Passionate about crime.
A programme for government!! an actual programme for government!!
Bluegrass Bluegrass GivesALT: Bluegrass Bluegrass Givesstatic.klipy.comMatthew FrightMore @instituteforgovernment.org.uk initial reactions to the rewiring the state cabinet statement. TLDR - the scale of ambition is bold so a lot to unpack 🧵
This is an absolutely extraordinary stat: more people were recalled to prison than released Jan-March 2026. 3/4 were for breaches of licence conditions, not for committing further offences. Probation has just become incapable of managing offenders in the community & supporting rehabilitation.
Danny ShawAnd - another key MoJ stat: 13,193 released prisoners were sent back to jail, Jan-March 2026 - near record number of 'recalls'. Number going back to jail *outstripped* prisoners released: 12,977 - thought to be first time this has happened. As fast as prisoners are let out, they return.
The new prime minister is about to run out of prison spaces. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. But once again, there are no easy answers and just cancelling early releases is not a solution. The focus must be on public protection - including better protection in the community. 🧵
The government must focus on public protection when it comes to prison releases | Institute for GovernmentThere are no easy answers to meeting the prison capacity challenge.www.instituteforgovernment.org.ukSo Burnham is pausing planned early releases from prisons. Not much of a surprise, but he should be hesitant to junk these plans entirely — the last government didn’t want to do this either! There are no easy answers on prison capacity www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...
Burnham pauses plan to release some prisoners early from September - live updatesUnder the scheme - designed to ease overcrowding - thousands of prisoners in England and Wales could have been freed after serving a third of their sentence, rather than half.www.bbc.co.ukThis is a fab chart from @resolutionfoundation.org. Really striking how much stronger the income gradient is for some services than others — no surprise that severe problems in local councils and especially the courts are felt more by those on low incomes.
Zachary LeatherBurnham’s instincts to turn to transport first are on the pulse of public opinion, the public service that people across the country seem most dissatisfied with