On Probation
First private probation provider goes bust
Working Links, provider of three CRCs, goes into administration. Seetec takes over the reins.
15th February 2019
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Working Links, provider of three CRCs, goes into administration. Seetec takes over the reins.
The personal and professional challenges for probation leaders charged with privatising their service.
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.
Jack Cattell of Get the Data does a deep dive into the latest private probation reconviction data and payment by results outcomes and finds some contradictory trends.
CRCs don’t see offenders often enough to engage them, leading to poor enforcement decisions. However, recalls to prison normally handled appropriately by NPS & CRCs.
NAO finds a total of £342 additional payments promised to Community Rehabilitation Contracts but thinks they may fail to hit payment by results targets.
Chief Probation Inspector Dame Glenys Stacey on how the inspectorate – and government – intend to tackle failing performance in the private probation sector.
Jack Cattell of Get the Data takes a deep dive into the first set of published reoffending rates from the new private Community Rehabilitation Companies.
MoJ performance stats show public probation outperforming new private providers and wide variation in the performance of Community Rehabilitation Companies.
New study of the enforced migration of probation staff from public service to private company and the effects on their professional & personal identities.
The number of prison officers fell by over 2000 last year while there are slightly more probation officers in the National Probation Service.
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.
