tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post2028667435152947113..comments2024-03-29T11:18:07.045+00:00Comments on On Probation Blog: Learning From New ZealandJim Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00258147767051200157noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-65542736276977843122018-03-05T19:08:51.242+00:002018-03-05T19:08:51.242+00:00Here's another one - Blunkett - from 2001:
&q...Here's another one - Blunkett - from 2001:<br /><br />"We have a unique opportunity to revolutionise what is possible not only in preventing re -offending, but in ensuring rehabilitation. At the same time, we must continue to deliver the historic aim of public protection, appropriate punishment and the recent agenda of<br />reparation. And the National Probation Service has a vital role to play.<br /><br />The recent configuration of probation – with the creation of the National Probation Service and new arrangements for its governance embedded in new legislation – is central to our crime reduction strategies.<br /><br />The Service must now be shown to provide a discernible reduction in re-offending with greater levels of public protection. The New Choreography is unequivocal about where improvements can be made.<br /><br />Communities and victims depend on probation staff to do their jobs well and I believe that the objectives within this new integrated strategy will produce a clearly led, national service with a growing professional capacity.<br /><br />The NPS must be capable not only of providing evidence of the outcome of its work, but must be able to mirror public concern about crime, risk, the protection of victims and the rehabilitation of offenders."<br /><br />It ought to be available on audio book read by Gary Oldman over the original Magic Roundabout music.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-35234626446908933312018-03-05T18:53:18.822+00:002018-03-05T18:53:18.822+00:00Revisionists'R'Us
By Tom Whitehead, Home ...Revisionists'R'Us<br /><br />By Tom Whitehead, Home Affairs Editor<br />7:00AM BST<br />08 Jul 2009<br /><br />Rules governing night time cover for bail and probation hostels have been relaxed to allow one member of staff to be asleep, just five years after the practice was banned.<br /><br />The move means a private security guard or untrained probation officer can be on duty so long as a qualified probation officer is on the premises.<br /><br />The Conservatives warned the change will put the public at risk and claimed it was due to probation services being under increasing pressure to save money.<br /><br />Dominic Grieve, the shadow Justice Secretary, said: "This is yet another u-turn from Gordon Brown and one that will further dilute public protection. Labour's cuts to front-line services increase the risk to the public from sex offenders and dangerous criminals.<br /><br />"Ministers need to explain why officers employed to protect the public are being encouraged to sleep on the job."<br /><br />Sleeping cover was stopped in 2004 amid concerns that it did not meet national standards but has now been revived fresh guidance issued to probation officers.<br /><br />The relaxation is being introduced as local probation boards face cuts of £29 million, according to the Tories.<br /><br />But the Ministry of Justice denied it as due to budget cuts.<br /><br />A spokesman said: "It is not true that the rules on waking night cover have been changed because of budget cuts. In the last 10 years there has been a 70 per cent increase in probation funding and there are 7,000 more probation staff than in 1997.<br /><br />"There is no one size fits all approach to staffing in Approved Premises during the day or night.<br /><br />"Double waking night cover will remain the expected norm. Alternatives may be acceptable but only if they provide equivalent levels of public protection and staff safety.<br /><br />"For example, in certain Approved Premises where there is single waking night cover, one member of staff may rest but only after all offenders are securely back in the premises by 11pm. However, they remain available to deal with operational issues at all times, should the need arise."<br /><br /><br />You've just got to love the brass neck of all politicians who seem to think that what happened yesterday is somehow no longer applicable today, and tomorrow is yet another chance to re-write today.<br /><br />"The Conservatives warned the change will put the public at risk"<br /><br />"Labour's cuts to front-line services increase the risk to the public from sex offenders and dangerous criminals."<br /><br />Lying wankers, the lot of 'em.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-53689856445809133712018-03-05T17:52:12.082+00:002018-03-05T17:52:12.082+00:00It's been going on for years, well before TR. ...It's been going on for years, well before TR. <br /><br /><br />https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/5770804/Probation-staff-allowed-to-sleep-on-the-job.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-87895495271559498032018-03-05T16:49:43.209+00:002018-03-05T16:49:43.209+00:00Shameful! So now its possible to have untrained an...Shameful! So now its possible to have untrained and unvetted private security guards monitoring high risk offenders. <br />Tell me, what are the chances that you will have a profession to moan about in the not too distant? After all PO's are extremely expensive when compared with staff from OCS or Inter-fail.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-55113137689932569402018-03-05T10:28:37.573+00:002018-03-05T10:28:37.573+00:00So whilst they're constantly cutting corners a...So whilst they're constantly cutting corners at the front line, making professionals unemployed & gambling with peoples' lives - Spurr's remuneration as head of NOMS/HMPPS has risen from approx £145,000 in 2010/11 to approx £190,000 in 2016/17 - an increase of more than 30%.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-28807226583287341112018-03-05T08:40:37.162+00:002018-03-05T08:40:37.162+00:00BBC website 4 hours ago:-
Staff without security ...BBC website 4 hours ago:-<br /><br />Staff without security clearance monitor offenders<br /><br />Staff without security clearance are being allowed to monitor high-risk offenders living in approved premises - commonly known as bail hostels or probation hostels - the BBC has learnt.<br /><br />Earlier this month, two private firms, Sodexo and OCS, began providing overnight staff cover at the hostels as part of a new government contract. The government has confirmed that some of these staff will not be vetted. The union Unison has accused ministers of "gambling with public safety".<br /><br />The Ministry of Justice has said any staff without security clearance would work alongside "fully-vetted" members of the National Probation Service. In a letter to union leaders, Justice Secretary David Gauke said there would be a "60-day grace period" to allow contractors to complete criminal record checks and get licences from the security industry authority.<br /><br />There are about 90 approved premises across England and Wales that provide 2,200 places for released prisoners - the majority of whom have served long sentences for violent or sexual offences. Offenders are sent to live in the hostels as a condition of their release from prison or if the court believes they need a higher level of supervision in order to protect the public and to reduce the level of reoffending.Jim Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00258147767051200157noreply@blogger.com