The Manifesto Club has collected new statistics showing the continuing rise of litter fines issued by private companies. The primary company is Kingdom Security Ltd, which purchased the litter fines operation from XFor Ltd, and according to our FOI responses now works in…
In June 2010, Home Secretary Theresa May promised to ‘scale back’ criminal records checks to ‘common-sense proportions’. There was a widespread recognition that vetting was creating mistrust, turning away volunteers, and absorbing the time and money of local community groups. Confirming public…
The Manifesto Club report Smoked Out charts the rise of smoking bans in outdoor public spaces across the UK. First in children’s playgrounds, smoking bans have now spread to hospital sites, the gardens of closed mental health institutions, and are moving into squares,…
New anti-social behaviour powers are criminalising people merely for being in a public space. From 20 October 2014, the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act gave police new ‘dispersal powers’ to bar individuals from public spaces if they think a person’s behaviour…