As the reunification of the probation service draws nearer, Napo and the Probation Journal teamed up to produce a webinar series. Andrew Nielson, Howard League:-
"Probation transition week, let’s go." Senior Probation Manager
"Important week for probation! Big challenge for everyone. Good luck and keep your professionalism at the centre of the unification." Probation Institute
"A time to celebrate, but also a time to reflect on all the money, resources, and time wasted on the absolute folly of probation privatisation." Probation Practitioner
"I was volunteering for CRC and the scheme was working, and it’s been taken away. 18 months of hard work! My service users potentially will relapse and re-offend." Probation Volunteer
"Recognition has obviously come home, top down, that TR was a catastrophic disaster. So now its full astern to reverse the tanker. Claxons, commands, utter chaos has now ensued. While the command to reverse all engines is shouted, a gaggle of ambitious and over-promoted young officers with no idea whatsoever of how the engine works, what a rudder is, and their port from starboard, are mustering all troops to rearrange phalanxes of deck chairs. Having seen this coming for a while, older crew are literally jumping ship. Fresh faced junior officers and pressed (wo)men are eagerly rearranging deckchairs in the hope of promotion when the ship reaches port – a hopelessly optimistic projection. Plot twist: epidemic on board. Captain now pacing the deck inspecting each and every deckchair. Able Seaman Jim Brown, sole dignified figure, is playing a mournful ballad on his violin." Probation Lifer
"A time to celebrate, but also a time to reflect on all the money, resources, and time wasted on the absolute folly of probation privatisation." Probation Practitioner
"I was volunteering for CRC and the scheme was working, and it’s been taken away. 18 months of hard work! My service users potentially will relapse and re-offend." Probation Volunteer
"Recognition has obviously come home, top down, that TR was a catastrophic disaster. So now its full astern to reverse the tanker. Claxons, commands, utter chaos has now ensued. While the command to reverse all engines is shouted, a gaggle of ambitious and over-promoted young officers with no idea whatsoever of how the engine works, what a rudder is, and their port from starboard, are mustering all troops to rearrange phalanxes of deck chairs. Having seen this coming for a while, older crew are literally jumping ship. Fresh faced junior officers and pressed (wo)men are eagerly rearranging deckchairs in the hope of promotion when the ship reaches port – a hopelessly optimistic projection. Plot twist: epidemic on board. Captain now pacing the deck inspecting each and every deckchair. Able Seaman Jim Brown, sole dignified figure, is playing a mournful ballad on his violin." Probation Lifer
While you are being distracted by probation's magical transformation from one form of shitshow into another, do not forget to protect your personal health data.
ReplyDeleteAdvice & tools to do so can be found here:
https://medconfidential.org/how-to-opt-out/
Simplest method is to download the form (link on the medconfidential site) & hand it in/send it to your GP surgery BEFORE Aug 2021.
https://medconfidential.org/2021/press-release-governments-new-draft-data-strategy-for-health-boils-down-to-data-saves-lives-so-were-going-to-sell-it/
ReplyDeleteI really don't understand what the obsession is with localisation and local accountability...I'd be happy to hear why probation institute and others feels that's so important...I worked in the "Trust" days and it was bloody awful, worse for me then than it later was for me in NPS after "the split"
ReplyDeleteWhat concerns me about the localism agenda is the unquestioning assumption that charities and small local community agencies do a better job than probation...they don't always, their staff are notoriously under paid and their training poor. The speaker in the above video side lined training and development...for me our online modules are belittling and woefully inadequate and our development consists of variations on a theme of risk assessment. We are no longer in my view equipped to deliver probation as i understood it when I first qualified...now its about referrals to ETE, mentors, drug keyworkers, interventions, and now with the new target operating model outsourcing 121 interventions, personal wellbeing services, lifestyle services women's services. So if this is what localism means then I wholly disagree with the fragmentation and disjointed nature of service provision for sentenced people, and the downgrading of what our role actually means.
I'm very much in favour of a more localised model of probation delivery.
DeleteHowever, I think probation needs the autonomy to decide which external local services it wishes to link to, and I don't think the Dynamic Framework gives that option. There's a vast amount of diverse and small organisations in every local area that could be tapped into and be very useful to probation delivery, but they don't form part of the Dynamic Framework.
I'm not talking about 'partnerships' with probation, rather of 'informal' relationships.
I see the Dynamic Framework as just another form of outsourcing, restrictive by nature, and not really about localised probation delivery at all.
Unfortunately in my opinion, probation delivery has become prescribed, and I think that probation officers when working with offenders need autonomy to seek out pathways that can be tailored to the individual, and not be restricted by a number of government selected agencies lucky enough to have won contracts.
'Getafix
Food for thought:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57575077
"More than five million people became millionaires across the world in 2020 despite economic damage from the Covid-19 pandemic.
While many poor people became poorer, the number of millionaires increased by 5.2 million to 56.1 million globally, Credit Suisse research found.
In 2020 more than 1% of adults worldwide were millionaires for the first time.
Recovering stock markets and soaring house prices helped boost their wealth.
Wealth creation appeared to be "completely detached" from the economic woes of the pandemic, the researchers said.
Anthony Shorrocks, economist and author of the Global Wealth Report, said the pandemic had an "acute short term impact on global markets", but added this was "largely reversed by the end of June 2020".
"Global wealth not only held steady in the face of such turmoil but in fact rapidly increased in the second half of the year," he said.
Billionaires see fortunes rise by 27% during the pandemic
'Wealth increase of 10 men during pandemic could buy vaccines for all' "
Manslaughter after 6x lethal dose of electric shock a stunned man gets kicked by a police officer so his boot laces imprint the pattern in the man's head across his forehead. That's just the sort of policing I would like to feel safe with. Only if the cop kills you excercising his right leg at kicking you I am wondering where he was trained to kick a man's skull and call that safe arrest technique. Manslaughter clearly murder . Perhaps the police will put him back on a beat . Shameful jury all union jacks and British were they.
ReplyDeleteMore Tory policy by stealth
ReplyDeletehttps://www.gov.uk/government/publications/a-guide-for-the-families-and-significant-others-of-those-serving-indeterminate-sentences
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/reserved-matters-application-for-the-new-prison-in-full-suttonpublic-consultation