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Story summary
- Institute for Government reported over 5,000 offenders were unmonitored in early 2026.
- From January to April, 5,000 people missed electronic tags, representing 15% of orders.
- Nearly 1,600 tags failed to signal for more than two weeks because of faults.
- The report warned the 2026 Sentencing Act will leave most licence offenders unsupervised for the final third.
- All probation units inspected in 2024-2025 were rated “requires improvement” or “inadequate”.