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All the latest news: TR/Reunification Policy Practice Innovation Inspections

Here you can find more than 750 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.

The MoJ updates its strategy

Refreshed single departmental plan has 4 stripped down objectives: Provide a prison and probation service that reforms offenders; Deliver a modern courts and justice system; Promote a global Britain and the rule of law; and Transform the department.

Three Principles work with Offenders

There’s a growing buzz about Three Principles as an effective approach to help promote psychological wellbeing and it’s proved effective with offenders at HMP Onley.

11/21 private probation companies hit PbR targets

There have been statistically significant reductions in the adjusted binary reoffending rate for 11 of the 21 CRCs in the April to June 2016 cohort when compared to the 2011 baseline reoffending rates.

Voluntary sector subsidising probation service

Clinks report: There are persistent structural problems with the design of Transforming Rehabilitation that mean the very organisations the probation system relies on are shut out and left in economically unsustainable positions.

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