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Probation inspectors find improvements in delivering unpaid work but its full potential to deliver effective punishment and essential life skills is yet to be realised.
MoJ evaluation of unpaid work in the unified probation service
Eoin Guilfoyle and Louise Kennefick set out a tripartite strategy for unpaid work
John Harding marks the 50 year anniversary of unpaid work by recounting the very first court order.
Phil Bowen of the Centre for Justice Innovation blogs on their new report on the (much neglected) area of unpaid work.
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.
