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New study of the enforced migration of probation staff from public service to private company and the effects on their professional & personal identities.
1st Probation Inspectorate Quality & Impact report finds serious concerns about the quality of work delivered by the Community Rehabilitation Company in Durham.
Chair of the Probation Institute Paul Senior looks back at the impact of Transforming Rehabilitation and fears for the future of probation.
Latest Clinks report on probation changes finds a ‘narrowing’ of services, with changes from one-to-one support to more group work, and from more flexible person-centred approaches to a more process driven or ‘box-ticking’ arrangements.
Offenders on probation used terms such as “more stressed”, “miserable”, “deflated” to describe their probation officers after Transforming Rehabilitation was implemented.
Achieving value for money from the new probation system will require resolving these fundamental issues, and ensuring the right incentives for all participants in the system.
Most prisoners still had less than two hours a day out of their cells and we found more than half the population locked behind their doors during the working day.
The main message from the literature is that commissioners need to be proactive in ensuring that PbR providers deliver a good quality service — particularly when service users include vulnerable groups
2016 Clinks State of the Sector report finds that the offender voluntary sector is facing a serious funding crisis with many services threatened by closure.
commissioners are urged to consider whether potential providers have sufficient financial resources to bid for a contract which requires considerable initial investment and where payments are delayed until the achievement of outcome measures has been verified.
It is not possible to transfer all risk, be that risk reputational, practical or financial. Commissioners retain their responsibility for local citizens receiving a good quality and effective service.
Langley House Trust spells out disastrous consequences of this April’s housing benefit changes for supported housing providers working with offenders & other vulnerable groups
