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Serious further offences inspection: The government and probation services are not doing enough to learn from past mistakes. Lessons must be learnt to prevent more tragedies in the future.
Probation inspectors find South Yorkshire CRC “much” improved performance and upgrade rating to “good”.
Probation inspectors find Durham Tees Valley CRC has improved performance and upgrade rating to “good”.
HMI Probation explores the role of community hubs in helping to deliver probation services and support desistance.
West Yorkshire CRC must take urgent action to address staffing levels and training, according to probation inspectors.
Probation Inspectors concerned by the quality of SWMCRC’s public protection work.
Probation Inspectors concerned by the quality of DLNRCRC’s public protection work, particularly the weak attention to safeguarding.
Joint inspection finds IOM has lost its way and better leadership is needed to get it back on track.
Probation Inspectors found that Northumbria CRC had improved but not sufficiently – still rated as “requires improvement”.
Nicola Carr highlights the recent Council of Europe guidelines on the recruitment & training of probation staff in the HMIP academic insight series.
Probation Inspectors rate Thames Valley CRC as “good”, a significant improvement on previous inspection.
Chris Fox and Kevin Albertson explore the concept of innovation in probation in another of HMI Probation’s Academic Insights.
