🚨 NEW: 'FROZEN 2': 🧊 Here's the Wales Fiscal Analysis team's first breakdown on what the 2025 Autumn Budget means for Wales

🚨NEWYDD: Beth mae Cyllideb y Hydref 2025 yn ei olygu i Gymru? Dyma ddadansoddiad cyntaf o'r newidiadau sydd ar y ffordd

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“The glaring weaknesses of prisoners’ Welsh language rights also demand fresh consideration of the anomalous constitutional arrangements governing prisons in Wales. The only
common law country in the world to have its own legislature and executive without its own justice system.” 1/2

NEWYDD - Adroddiad gan @robdjones.bsky.social yn dadansoddi'r data diweddaraf ar garchardai a charchariad yng Nghymru 👇

NEW - Report from Dr Robert Jones analyses the latest data on prisons and imprisonment in Wales 👇 #Wales #Cymru #Senedd26
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Almost a decade on, Wales' fiscal reforms deliver nearly £1 Billion windfall but fall short on empowering the Senedd

Major new report calls for tripling of borrowing powers and full income tax control as Fiscal Framework reforms deliver unprecedented budget boost:👇
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Mae diwygiadau cyllidol Cymru yn darparu mantais ariannol o bron i £1 Biliwn 📈💷

Mae adroddiad mawr yn galw ar Gymru i dreblu pwerau benthyca ac ennill rheolaeth lawn dros dreth incwm wrth i ddiwygiadau'r Fframwaith Cyllidol ddarparu hwb cyllideb ddigynsail. 👇
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Fel hyn y mae yng nghyfundrefn Cyfiawnder Droseddol Cymru - cyfundrefn sy'n methu ym mhob ffordd bosib gan gynnwys hyn...

The reality of the Welsh Criminal Justice system - a system that fails on every possible metric and not just this...

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Research from @robdjones.bsky.social and @gjdavies.bsky.social has shed light on the attitudes towards the Welsh language inside Wales’s largest prison:

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HMP Berwyn, the UK's largest prison, was once presented as an advance for the Welsh language.

@robdjones.bsky.social and I argue that it’s been a categorical failure by that measure, posing troubling questions for Welsh language rights more widely: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This may not seem groundbreaking on first look but it is a *huge* step forward as the UK Govt is for the first time acknowledging that the ‘England and Wales’ justice system is a binary, not a unitary arrangement.

The slow, grudging acceptance by UK Govt of this reality has begun with this step:

NEW: The UK Govt's Ministry of Justice begins routinely publishing Wales-only prison data for the first time following a decade of research exposing issues in the Welsh criminal justice system by Dr Robert Jones. 1/3
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Erthygl newydd ar anfodlonrwydd cymdeithasol a radicaleiddio yn Lloegr gan @ailsahenderson.bsky.social a @richardwynjones.bsky.social

New piece in the @theconversation.com from the research team at @theunionsurvey.bsky.social about contemporary social and political discontent in #England 👇

We’ll continue to share articles from the special issue as and when they’re published. Diolch!

Renzulli finds various shortcomings, and calls for: 1) the expansion of HMIP's powers; 2) a beefed up UK National Preventative Mechanism, with a statutory basis.

These reforms, she argues, would create a more effective Inspectorate and help to ensure that OPCAT’s purpose is realised.

The paper evaluates the powers and functions of HM Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP) against the UK’s obligations under the UN Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture (OPCAT).

We’re really pleased to share the first piece published as part of the special issue, written by Dr Isobel Renzulli:

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@robdjones.bsky.social and I are guest editing a special issue of @howardjournalcj.bsky.social which explores the rights of prisoners in the UK and elsewhere.

It follows an @slsauk.bsky.social seminar held in Liverpool in 2023, and features a brilliant set of legal academics and criminologists.

🚨 Ymateb i'r cyhoeddiad am gyllid rheilffyrdd i Gymru gan dîm Dadansoddi Cyllid Cymru 🚝

🚨 Our Wales Fiscal Analysis team’s response to today’s rail funding announcement for Wales 🚝

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🚨 NEWYDD 🚨: Ymateb Dadansoddiad Cyllid Cymru i Ddatganiad Gwanwyn y Canghellor - beth fydd ei effaith yng Nghymru? 💷 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

🚨 OUT NOW 🚨: Wales Fiscal Analysis's reaction to the Chancellor's Spring Statement - what will be its impact in Wales? 💷 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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The Minister knows full-well that the funding model for universities is totally broken. She and her Welsh Govt colleagues have the power to address this but are currently choosing not to - despite £1.2B+ a year of HigherEd related spending...

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