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.
1st Probation Inspectorate Quality & Impact report finds serious concerns about the quality of work delivered by the Community Rehabilitation Company in Durham.
NOMS is in charge of prisons and probation, find out what its priorities are in the year ahead.
Overall, this is a young and inexperienced ministerial team under the leadership of a young and inexperienced Justice Secretary. We will have to wait and see whether this means they can bring a fresh perspective or are vulnerable to being out-manoeuvred by vested interests.
A short profile of the first ever woman Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice Liz Truss.
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.
