Tags are keywords. I put tags on every post to help you find the content you want. Tags may be people (Dominic Raab, say), organisations (The Howard League, PRT), themes (women offenders, homelessness) or specific items (heroin, racial disparity, ROTL). If you’re looking to research a particular issue, they can be invaluable.
Adultification bias results in Black children’s rights being diminished and notions of innocence and vulnerability displaced by responsibility and culpability.
Latest HMI Probation research bulletin identifies four promising approaches to tackling knife crime.
Russell Webster’s unofficial probation league table (based on HMI Probation inspection reports). Updated 24 October 2024.
Systemic resilience focuses on strengthening the protective factors around the child including within their family, their community, and local services.
Transitional Safeguarding – a more fluid approach which recognises that transition to adulthood goes beyond an 18th birthday.
HMI Probation research explores the experiences of probation staff working with trauma.
Chief Inspector of Probation commends improving youth offending services in 2022 annual report.
Inspectors surveyed 1,534 probation staff on their views of the new (re)unified service. This is what they said.
Probation inspectors find that some former CRC staff feel like second-class citizens in newly unified probation service.
A summary of the new Council of Europe recommendations on the assessment, treatment and reintegration of people accused or convicted of a sexual offence.
Probation inspectors find that the electronic monitoring of people on probation underused and in need of improvement.
Hazel Kemshall digs into the detail of bias and error in assessing and managing risk in the latest HMI Probation Academic Insight.
