How good is your probation service?
Russell Webster’s unofficial probation league table (based on HMI Probation inspection reports). Updated 22 March 2024.
Here you can find more than 700 posts tracking every major development in probation since 2011. You can trace the rise and fall of Transforming Rehabilitation, see the latest performance figures and explore new practice developments. If you’re looking for something in particular, try the search box below.
Russell Webster’s unofficial probation league table (based on HMI Probation inspection reports). Updated 22 March 2024.
Systemic resilience focuses on strengthening the protective factors around the child including within their family, their community, and local services.
Belinda Winder provides evidence-based best practice advice for reducing reoffending and increasing community reintegration of sex offenders.
Revolving Doors lived experience inquiry into probation
Transitional Safeguarding – a more fluid approach which recognises that transition to adulthood goes beyond an 18th birthday.
HMI Probation research explores the experiences of probation staff working with trauma.
Chief Inspector of Probation commends improving youth offending services in 2022 annual report.
Clinks research finds probation commissioning favoured larger, well-resourced organisations and disadvantaged smaller, local and specialist ones.
Inspectors surveyed 1,534 probation staff on their views of the new (re)unified service. This is what they said.
Probation inspectors find that some former CRC staff feel like second-class citizens in newly unified probation service.
Anne-Marie Day highlights the confusion surrounding whether youth justice practitioners should prioritise the management of risk or adopt a child first approach.
‘It’s ok if you were in for robbery or murder, but sex offending, that’s a no no’: a qualitative analysis of the experiences of 12 men with sexual convictions seeking employment.