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An attempt to help explain the mysteries and magic that are part and parcel of 'probation'.
Monday, 28 December 2015
Comment Value Hierarchy
The following pinched from world-famous London blogger Diamond Geezer
Mark Leftly The Independent:-
ReplyDeleteThe troubled part-privatisation of the probation service has taken another hit with one new owner, Working Links, planning hundreds of redundancies across the country.
The group, which is a public, private and voluntary-sector company whose shareholders include Capgemini, Manpower and the Department for Work & Pensions, is understood to be planning 200 job cuts in the Welsh probation service alone.
This has prompted Natalie Bennett, the Green Party leader who is a former probation worker, to write to Carwyn Jones, the First Minister of Wales, demanding he “use whatever powers you have to mitigate job losses”. The letter, seen by The Independent, added that Ms Bennett has “grave professional concerns about our capacity in Wales to give offenders the care, attention, and time they require”.
The reforms were overseen by the former Lord Chancellor Chris Grayling. He privatised 70 per cent of the service in England and Wales, with only the most dangerous offenders still looked after by the state.
Mr Grayling confirmed last December that the private sector would be handed 21 “Community Rehabilitation Companies” (CRCs) in deals that are worth around £450m a year.
Aside from Wales, Working Links runs the Bristol, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire CRC and another that covers Dorset, Devon and Cornwall – further job cuts are expected in both.
One CRC, the Sodexo-run South Yorkshire region, has failed a Ministry of Justice audit and has until February to improve or be renationalised.
Napo, the probation union, has long claimed that privatisation would cause redundancies and a poorer service, but ministers believe that greater commercial nous will reduce the costs of Britain’s highly expensive legal system.
Ministry sources confirmed that an audit of the Kent, Surrey and Sussex CRC, run by Seetec Group, had “identified some areas for improvement”. But the situation is not as bad as that in South Yorkshire, where the MoJ audit found “lack of contact with offenders, ineffective enforcement and little or no evidence of any offence- or risk-focused work”.
A Napo spokeswoman said: “Napo said from the outset that privatising the probation service would have a negative impact on the quality of service our members provide as profit becomes a priority over public protection and quality. We are now seeing our fears become a reality and urge the Government to urgently review all the CRCs’ performance.”
A Working Links spokesman said: “After careful consideration, we are starting to streamline our support services across the business and have opened up opportunities for voluntary redundancy for those wishing to leave our CRCs.
“This will be an enhanced package and it is our aim, wherever possible, to avoid compulsory redundancies.
“We are consulting with the unions and our people on our proposed new way of working across the organisation. At this stage we are simply looking for expressions of interest of those people who may wish to leave the organisation.
“Our front line delivery will not be negatively impacted by our proposed changes.”
A MoJ spokeswoman said: “We hold providers rigorously to account for their performance and take action wherever they are falling short.”
This comment comes under under Pedantic 3a. Natalie Bennett was formerly a journalist. The leader of Plaid Cymru, Leanne Wood, was a former probation officer.
DeleteOh blimey yes of course - what a clanger.
DeleteJust waiting for SWM and DLNR streamlining exercise.RRP announcement got to be soon,I guess.
ReplyDeleteSounds like Directors and their friends are to get EVR, before Working Links sheds frontline staff with no EVR ..... Sodexo model all over again as expected. So Seetec/KSS CRC needs improvements too. Wasn't it just the other day there was a commenter from there telling us how great is was to work there because they received a £150 Christmas "bonus"?
ReplyDeleteSo far on the CRC failure list it's;
Sodexo
Working Links
Seetec
Who's next? MTCNovo??
Ingeus RRP next
DeletePurple Futures releasing their staffing numbers and locations in early January. All staff informed of a meeting to be held on 11th. No more admin in probation offices and all are to be located in a central office. For the time-being each county will keep an admin hub but in due course and sooner rather than later there will be two. Everyone expecting Manchester to be one as they already have HQ there aswell as spare office capacity in Oakland House. Lots of people very worried about the future.
DeleteSWM and DLNR Ingeus moving admin to nottingham and birmingham. No details yet but due to complete move by April 2016
Delete7e) Comment from the author of the original article
ReplyDeleteNarcissistic - 8: (a) comment which is all about ME!
DeleteRarely 'anonymous'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35187966
ReplyDelete'Hundreds of inmates' released in error
Prisoners are being released early by mistake at a rate of just under one every week in England and Wales, figures have revealed. Ministry of Justice data obtained by the Press Association shows it has happened 505 times in the past decade. Cases have included those in prison for murder and other violent offences.
DeleteTory MP Philip Davies called the findings "disturbing", but the Prison Service said such incidents were "very rare" and becoming less common.
The figures obtained by the news agency show that 48 suspected or convicted criminals were freed by mistake in 2014-15.
In one case, Martynas Kupstys was released from HMP Lincoln while on remand for murder in August last year. He was returned to custody after waiting at a nearby bus stop for three hours, and was later convicted.
In an other example, a prisoner was freed from HMP Hewell, in Worcestershire, in July last year after an apparent mix-up involving another prisoner with the same surname. He was taken back to jail the next day.
Mr Davies, a member of the Commons justice committee, said: "The first duty of the Prison Service should be protection of the public. These disturbing figures show that once a week the Prison Service release the wrong prisoner, and have done so for many years. This is nothing more than a shambles which puts the public unnecessarily at risk."
Shadow justice minister Andy Slaughter said it was further evidence of "the crisis in our prisons where overcrowding and violence are rife".
The charity Victim Support said those affected by crime would be "alarmed and frustrated". Director Lucy Hastings said: "We know it can be distressing and worrying when offenders are released from custody - releases made in error can make this many times worse."
The Press Association obtained the figures through a Freedom of Information request. They show 41 people were wrongly released from prison and seven from court custody last year. This was one fewer than the previous year.
Over those two years, just under a quarter of the cases had been sentenced or charged over robbery or violent offences including assault and battery. One was in custody on a firearms charge and another was being held for possessing an explosive substance.
Two of those released in 2014-15 had not been returned to custody by the start of December this year, including an alleged sex offender released from court.
There were three releases from HMP Manchester, one from HMP Belmarsh and one from HMP Woodhill, all high-security prisons, over two years. HMP Bullingdon in Oxfordshire has the highest number of such releases over the same period with 10.
The Prison Service said public protection was its top priority. A spokesman said: "These incidents are very rare but we are not complacent. "The number of releases in error has fallen by almost a third since 2009 and the vast majority are returned to custody very quickly.
"The Prison Service investigates each incident and they are reported to the police for further action."