The Bar Council’s flagship social mobility initiative, Bar Placement Week, will this week mark 10 years of giving sixth form students from non-traditional backgrounds the opportunity to spend a week experiencing life as a barrister. 

A public consultation on evidence-based guidelines for chief officers on how they should deliver, support and develop neighbourhood policing has opened.

Amnesty International has called on the Home Office to bring an end to “shameful” fees of over £1000 for UK-born children of immigrants to obtain citizenship.

Politicians were partly to blame for the tragic killing of Jo Cox because of the atmosphere created by the EU referendum debate, the chaplain for the Houses of Parliament has said.

Dods People draws together a list of this week's appointments in Westminster politics, all the devolved administrations and the public affairs sector.

MPs have rounded on the Home Office after it provided “no credible explanation” for twice detaining two children of the Windrush generation.

Responding to the Bar Standards Board’s (BSB) new guide on customer feedback, a Bar Council spokesperson said: “Suggestions on techniques and approaches that barristers and chambers might adopt for eliciting constructive feedback from clients will no doubt be helpful.

Rebecca Weston, Sellafield director of strategy and technology, said:

Findings from the 2017 local Routine Arming Survey reports show that officers across England and Wales want better access to Tasers, as force-level reports are published today.

The UK could fail to hit legally binding emissions targets if it does not take "urgent action", the Government's official advisers have warned.

London MP and former Minister Stephen Hammond writes about an app, launched this week by one of his constituents. He writes "Knife crime is something that affects us all in some way and it’s time we all responsibly got involved".

Barristers and solicitor advocates representing clients in criminal courts are generally delivering a competent service to the public, two reports released today have found.

The Association of Former Members of Parliament has published the latest edition of its official journal Order! Order!

The annual National Conservative Convention board elections are happening again right now. Tories who want to get their hands on the levers of party machinery are vying for the attention of a tiny electorate of around 800 local chairmen and the primary contact method is through the Royal Mail. The arcane NCC race happens every year but slips completely under the radar because it is so private and hardly contested. Only in an internal Conservative party election could an outsider candidate with an OBE go up against a teddy bear salesman from Guildford. Emilio Casalicchio talks to some of the contestants and a few Tory bigwigs to find out what the race is all about.

IPSE (the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed) has today reacted to the Westminster Magistrates’ Court ruling that granted a probationary licence for Uber to operate in London.

Automatic Enrolment will not defuse the ‘ticking timebomb’ that is the self-employed pensions crisis, a new landmark report by IPSE (the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed) has found.

New figures from the “Barristers’ Working Lives 2017: Harassment and bullying” report, released by the Bar Council today, indicate that reports of harassment or bullying and discrimination within the barristers’ profession, as well as reports of observations of harassment or bullying and discrimination, have increased in comparison with previous years. 

Senior MPs have called on the Home Office to urgently lower fees faced by those seeking access to asylum, immigration, nationality and customs services.

If the House of Commons authorities are serious about restoring faith in their grievance procedures, they must address past allegations of bullying and harassment, writes FDA Assistant General Secretary Amy Leversidge

A House of Commons committee is facing a probe from the UK’s data watchdog after revealing Brexit chief Arron Banks' passport number online, PoliticsHome can disclose.

Major reforms to the probation system brought in by Cabinet minister Chris Grayling have created a “mess”, according to MPs.

The Government has refused to confirm that EU citizens living in the UK will be granted so-called ‘settled status’ in the event of a no-deal Brexit.

Andrea Leadsom has said that Labour are to blame for one of their MPs being forced to vote in a wheelchair.

Diane Abbott has written to Sajid Javid urging him to lay bare the full scale of deportations and detentions connected to the Windrush crisis.