Tag Archives: Chris Grayling

With our current prison system, Chris Grayling’s talk of ‘purposeful activity’ is meaningless

By Guest | Published: April 30, 2013

Too many prisons act like bad parents. Rather than doing anything productive with those in their care, it’s a lot less effort to simply plonk them in front of the TV to veg out.

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Comment: why is outsourcing wrong?

By Ben Mackay | Published: January 9, 2013

With the memory of the G4S debacle at the beginning of the summer still sore, today’s news that the government plans to outsource huge swathes of the probation service will be met by cynicism and concern. British government use of the private sector to run services has had a difficult history. However, the justice secretary [...]

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Try as he may, Chris Grayling can’t make prison cuts without cutting prison numbers

By Guest | Published: November 23, 2012

Efforts by the coalition to reduce expenditure on prisons are fraught with problems, including, potentially, from the ever-reliable G4S.

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Does Grayling believe in the Right to Life? The Prohibition of Torture? Of Slavery?

By Dan Holden | Published: November 9, 2012

In an interview with ConservativeHome, Chris Grayling reaffirms worries about the Tory party stance on human rights, with talk of quitting the ECHR.

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The government’s Work Programme (still) isn’t working

By Ben Phillips | Published: July 9, 2012

New ONS figures reveal that the number of long-term unemployed has more than doubled since May 2010: a new milestone in the Work Programme’s litany of failure.

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Calamity Grayling misuses the stats (again)

By Shamik Das | Published: April 17, 2012

Gaffe-prone employment minister Chris Grayling added to his opus of incompetence today; Shamik Das chronicles all his balls ups down the years.

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Will Grayling and IDS stand up to Osborne over £10bn DWP cuts?

By Shamik Das | Published: March 29, 2012

George Osborne may face a fight over the planned £10 billion welfare cuts, with DWP ministers Chris Grayling and Iain Duncan Smith at odds with the chancellor.

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Latest labour market stats are encouraging, but we should remain cautious

By Richard Exell | Published: March 14, 2012

We should be cautious and wait a couple of months before we conclude the labour market is definitely on the mend, writes Richard Exell.

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Work experience is now voluntary, but the government still forces unpaid work

By Alex Hern | Published: February 29, 2012

Alex Hern celebrates a minor victory over workfare, but warns that there is more to fight for in the future.

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Chris Grayling should respond to criticism of workfare, not smear the critics

By Guest | Published: February 21, 2012

Izzy Koksal debunks Chris Grayling’s defence of workfare – or rather, his attacks on the critics of workfare.

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