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 guide is a practical document and provides a structured and accessible introduction to involving offenders and exoffenders; it
includes examples of good practice, checklists and signposts to further information and support.
The voice of probation – the Probation Institute enters the debate on prison reform arguing for a reinvestment in community sanctions.
Langley House Trust spells out disastrous consequences of this April’s housing benefit changes for supported housing providers working with offenders & other vulnerable groups
New research from Professor Gill Kirton examines the highly negative impact on a mainly female workforce of Transforming Rehabilitation, the privatisation of the probation service.
MoJ commits itself to prison reform: “We will change the way we run prisons so there is an unremitting emphasis on rehabilitation and redemption.”
Probation inspectors find that no progress has been made in last four years and many young offenders are still unprepared for transition to probation.
I do hope that more voluntary sector organisations will now feel confident enough in the JDL’s methodology to use what is an excellent opportunity to test the effectiveness of their work at no cost.
There have been concerns about the pace of change, about the danger of fragmentation and about IT systems. The MoJ has emphasised the importance of the voluntary sector in the CRC partnerships; however, they have been concerns about lack of clarity for that sector about what their role will be.
Unpaid work has always been the Cinderella department of probation work – doing valuable work but under-valued and rarely fully integrated into the mainstream of offender management. It appears that the changes brought in by Transforming Rehabilitation are reinforcing this trend.
Although this is a coherent strategy, many remain disappointed that there has yet been little focus on the quality of work being delivered or on the progress of the new Through the Gate (TTG) resettlement services to short-term prisoners.
Perhaps their most important conclusion is the contention that probation practice should focus more on helping sex offenders move forward, away from a life of crime rather than continuously re-examining past offences.
You might think that 2.3 million people incarcerated is a lot of people, but that number only scratches at the surface. That number represents just the number of people imprisoned at any one time. Here’s what else PPI can teach us…
