Who will run new probation?
Following the announcement of the organisations who successfully completed the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire hurdle in the Transforming Rehabilitation competition last week, I thought it might be interesting to provide a very brief overview of the 30 bodies who want to run probation services from 2015.
There are a mix of aspiring large private companies (15), probation mutuals (11), voluntary organisations (10), County and Borough Councils (3) and a further education college (1) – these add up to more than 30 since many organisations are in partnerships or Joint Ventures. You will see from the list below that several organisations are in more than one partnership – for instance the drug provider CRI is bidding alone and in partnership with Ingeus and St Giles Trust; Sodexo also qualified as a sole bidder and in partnership with a Greater Manchester and Cheshire probation mutual.
This post replicates the official list below and provides links to either the partnership/Joint Venture if they have a web-presence or to the most relevant page of the main partners.
Just click on the hyperlink of the main organisations. Please feel free to offer corrections and improvements to the list:
| Bidder name | Partners include |
| A4E | |
| ARCC Ltd | Fabrick Housing; the Wise Group; Safe in Tees Valley; Tees Esk and Wear Valleys Foundation Trust; the Vardy Foundation; Changing Lives in the North East CIC (potential Durham Tees Valley staff Mutual) ; Stockton Borough Council; Darlington Borough Council |
| Aspire2 Change Ltd (Essex Probation Trust potential Mutual) | |
| Capita Plc | |
| Chalk Ventures Ltd | A4e Ltd; Bridges Ventures LLP; Co:here (potential Kent Surrey Sussex staff Mutual) |
| Crime Reduction Initiatives Ltd | |
| CRR Partnership Ltd | Carillion Plc, Reed in Partnership Ltd; Rehabilitation for Addicted Prisoners Trust (RAPt) |
| EOS Works Ltd | |
| GEODelta | Geo Group UK Ltd; Delta Rehabilitation Ltd (potential Humberside, Lincolnshire and York and North Yorkshire staff Mutual) |
| GMCSodexo | Sodexo; Greater Manchester and Cheshire Staff Group (potential Greater Manchester and Cheshire Staff Mutual) |
| Hampshire Rehabilitation Services | Hampshire County Council; Altered Images Management Ltd (potential Hampshire Probation Trust Staff Mutual) |
| Home Group Ltd | |
| Ingeus UK | Ingeus UK; St Giles Trust; Crime Reduction Initiatives (CRI) |
| Innovo (CLM) Ltd | Innovo (CLM) (potential Cumbria, Lancashire, Merseyside staff Mutual); The Manchester College |
| Interserve Investments Ltd | |
| Home Group and Mercia Community Action | Home Group; Mercia Community Action (Mercia Community Action is a CLG comprising a potential mutual of staff from West Mercia and Warwickshire Probation Trust and Willowdene Rehabilitation) |
| Momentis and Home Group | Home Group; Momentis (potential Mutual including Leicestershire and Rutland Probation Trust staff) |
| MTC Amey | MTC (UK) Ltd; Amey Community Ltd |
| Northern Inclusion Consortium Ltd | DISC; The Cyrenians; Groundwork NE; Mental Health Concern; Spectrum Community Health CIC |
| Pertemps People Development Group | |
| Prospects Services | |
| Prospects Resolutions Ltd | Prospects Services; Resolutions Ltd (potential West Yorkshire staff mutual) |
| Seetec Business Technology Centre Ltd | |
| Sentinel Offender Services Ltd | |
| Shaw Trust | Shaw Trust; (potential involvement of Dorset Devon and Cornwall staff mutual) |
| Sodexo UK & Ireland | |
| The GEO Group UK Ltd | |
| The Manchester College | |
| The Rehabilitation Company | Catch 22 Ltd; Turning Point; Williams Lea (division of DHL) |
| Working Links |
One Response
there are some worrying bidders in that pile. A4E, capita, blimey there are desperate.