Nacro and Rainer Crime Concern are going head to head in separate bids to run two new prisons in Merseyside and London.

Working or volunteering with the voluntary sector could add marks to a university degree under new guidance on academic credit arrangements for higher education in England.

Amendments to the accounting thresholds for charities have been labelled as "tinkering for the sake of tinkering" by a leading charity audit specialist.

The Charity Commission is to launch a consultation on draft supplementary guidance about how moral belief systems benefit the public. The guidance, Public Benefit and the Advancement of Moral or Ethical Belief Systems, explains how the principles of public benefit apply specifically to charities advancing a moral or ethical belief system, such as humanist and rationalist charities (pictured).