Service user involvement with offenders
Revolving Doors Agency toolkit provides detailed advice on how to involve service users in shaping your probation service.
14th July 2016
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.
Revolving Doors Agency toolkit provides detailed advice on how to involve service users in shaping your probation service.
HMI Probation report finds that referral orders are successful at reducing reoffending but are poorly understood and implemented in many areas.
How user-focused organisations go the extra mile to help recovering drug users and offenders get into work and turn their lives around.
An excellent new toolkit from Revolving Doors Agency presents everything you need to know and do to undertake peer research with offenders in the community.
Fascinating new book by Doctor Hannah Graham explores how probation officers resolve conflicts between their own values & the requirements of their organisation
How new Social Enterprise “Jobs, Friends and Houses” is helping turn round the lives of offenders in Blackpool.
Provocative and stimulating article by Professor Wendy Fitzgibbon on whether private probation will focus on innovation or cost cutting.
Chair of the Probation Institute Paul Senior looks back at the impact of Transforming Rehabilitation and fears for the future of probation.
Reform Think Tank urges complete privatisation of probation with local devolution of offender management to Police and Crime Commissioners.
Latest Clinks report on probation changes finds a ‘narrowing’ of services, with changes from one-to-one support to more group work, and from more flexible person-centred approaches to a more process driven or ‘box-ticking’ arrangements.
Embedding desistance practice The timing of the Probation Inspectorate’s new thematic inspection on desistance and young people could hardly be better. Published on 24 May
Cost reductions may stabilise the financial positions of CRCs, but could limit innovation and compromise service delivery.
