tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post4400496263507693382..comments2024-03-28T20:12:43.003+00:00Comments on On Probation Blog: SFOs = Renationalise ProbationJim Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00258147767051200157noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-89593673604679714372017-08-10T23:08:47.043+01:002017-08-10T23:08:47.043+01:00After a bit of snooping it seems this one slipped ...After a bit of snooping it seems this one slipped by without too much noise...<br /><br />May 2016<br />"Thugs who attacked three men in a drink-fuelled frenzy have been jailed... Patrickson, 21, of Lindisfarne Street, off London Road, Carlisle, was also jailed for 20 months."<br /><br />April 2017:<br />"Patrickson, 22, who admitted murder, must serve at least 18 years in jail. The court heard a detailed account of the events on Saturday, January 7, when Mr McMullen was brutally killed at his home in Workington."<br /><br />NPS or Sodexo?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-73172290409898656722017-08-10T22:43:20.922+01:002017-08-10T22:43:20.922+01:00November 2012:
"A man who broke down in tears...November 2012:<br />"A man who broke down in tears during a robbery on a Cumbria shoe repair shop has been jailed for five years. Sean Morrin, 28, had been on a four-day drinking binge when he tried to raid Timpson's in King Street, Whitehaven."<br /><br />August 2017:<br />"Sean Morrin, 32, of Nelson Street, Maryport, has been charged with murder and has been remanded in police custody to appear before Workington Magistrates' Court tomorrow."<br /><br />Presumably an offence committed whilst on licence? So yet another SFO?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-71879326143447375432017-08-10T18:40:37.415+01:002017-08-10T18:40:37.415+01:00interserve are using their windfall to get more st...interserve are using their windfall to get more staff apparently 70 vacancies across the estate and from what I can gather they are mainly for practitioner roles. Sadly, i think the lengthy salary scales will put many off. Many band 3 in our office carrying at least 75 cases.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-72403164103756818652017-08-10T03:33:54.838+01:002017-08-10T03:33:54.838+01:00And the UK tax payer pays the court costs when the...And the UK tax payer pays the court costs when the government dosent want us to know how much were paying for shite outsourced services. No doubt the same process will apply to stop any reports on TR. <br /><br />http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/government-wca-work-capability-results-benefits-fit-to-work-information-commissioner-dwp-work-a7883111.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-72168674456837570562017-08-09T22:54:22.204+01:002017-08-09T22:54:22.204+01:00Interesting comments from ex-MP & ex-bank econ...Interesting comments from ex-MP & ex-bank economist Jim O'Neil on WorldAtOne today ~13mins onwards regarding perverse incentives for big business management teams to manipulate share prices so they can capitalise on the bonus structures, e.g. companies can artificially inflate share dividends by buying their own shares back, which reduces the numbers of shares & thus inflates the value of the remaining shares awarded as bonuses to senior managers. No increase in business activity, employment or productivity... just shitloads more money for the manipulative, lying greedy bastards and misleading data for the stockmarkets, which dictate the who/where/when of global financial ebb & flow.<br /><br />"Net debt will rise to £475m-£500m by the end of the year..." In less than 6 months they'll have accrued a further £200m debts to be £Half-a-Billion in debt (to who?), yet they're deemed fit & proper to continue to trade!??<br />And the UK taxpayer has been duped into handing over some £11m a week for 7 years to these financial fuckwits who own the CRCs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-26744352954137388962017-08-09T22:06:35.555+01:002017-08-09T22:06:35.555+01:00'The group’s statutory earnings rose to £24.9m...'The group’s statutory earnings rose to £24.9m from a £33.8m loss the year before' - but meanwhile Interserve CRCs are so criminally under resourced that most staff would struggle to name half of the practically double the safe maximum case loads they are holding, let alone carry out any meaningful work with them. In Manchester the focus is solely the cash linked targets. The effectiveness of the work is neither here nor there as the job is now solely a matter of guaranteeing revenue for the company, with reducing reoffending and protecting the public no longer part of the picture.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-41360078271461405332017-08-09T21:47:47.099+01:002017-08-09T21:47:47.099+01:00 F.T
UK outsourcer Interserve has warned of cont... F.T<br /><br /> UK outsourcer Interserve has warned of continuing challenging conditions for its industry as it revealed a sharp fall in underlying pre-tax profits. However, the company, whose contracts range from managing the Salisbury Plain military training base, to operating schools and colleges, said that good trading in its international construction unit would enable it to meet full-year revenue guidance. Underlying pre-tax profit fell to £36.5m in the six months to June from £55.2m in the same period last year, amid what the group described as “challenging market conditions [and] regulatory and political changes”. The UK outsourcing industry has suffered from a slowdown in new contracts as civil servants remain distracted by the ramifications of the Brexit vote. A “hiatus in UK government procurement around the 2016 EU referendum” and this year’s general election had affected business, Interserve said, although it added that contract tenders that had stalled were now starting to be concluded. The company, which pays a large proportion of its 50,000 workers by the hour, said earnings in its UK support services business were hit by increases to the National Minimum Wage and changes to holiday pay rules that force employers to factor in commission income alongside base salaries. “We remain cautious about the UK outsourcing sector generally,” wrote analysts at stockbroker Liberum in a note on Interserve’s half-year results. Interserve is the latest British outsourcer to strike a cautious note about market conditions. Serco, the FTSE 250 support services business, said last week that several of its markets had become “markedly more unstable” in the face of growing political uncertainty. Mitie Group, which manages immigration detention centres for the UK government and provides receptionists and cleaners for offices, reported a full-year loss in June after a string of profit warnings and a slowdown in contract awards in the wake of the Brexit vote. Government contractor Carillion is also grappling with rising borrowings and weakening profits, prompting concerns it will need to conduct a debt-for-equity swap or launch a rights issue. Interserve was announcing half-year earnings weeks before senior Sodexo executive Debbie White takes over from Adrian Ringrose as the group’s chief executive. Mr Ringrose, who has been at the helm of Interserve since 2003, announced his departure last December. Interserve’s half-year revenues remained broadly flat at £1.6bn. The group’s statutory earnings rose to £24.9m from a £33.8m loss the year before, due to higher exceptional costs last year. Net debt will rise to £475m-£500m by the end of the year from £388m currently, the group said. Its share price was broadly flat at 225p on Wednesday.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-17340323284279938422017-08-09T21:37:47.230+01:002017-08-09T21:37:47.230+01:00Completely agree 20:04 and what I find even more w...Completely agree 20:04 and what I find even more worrying is the Interswerve have the cleaning contracts within NPS hostel in Cheshire Gtr Manchester and Merseyside so are likely to try and make a killing from " night supervisor " contracts - really does make you feel I'll at the thought of the mess they are making of CGM CRC however they hold the monopoly of CRC contracts and construction news highlighted today how badly they were doing in construction so therefore will be focusing on their other businesses - scary indeed - even more scary is as Probation staff who are now Interswerve overlords are still banging the drums of how great they and their ideas are !!!!! Willing to shed personal and professional integrity in place of losing their bonuses !!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-57547391074044469072017-08-09T20:04:14.558+01:002017-08-09T20:04:14.558+01:00"CMTs are able to draw upon commercial, finan..."CMTs are able to draw upon commercial, financial and legal expertise from within the wider Ministry in delivering this role."<br />So the same legal eagles that represent the MoJ are on hand for CRCs to draw upon? <br />Conflict resolution at its best! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-41270850392111366862017-08-09T19:54:37.006+01:002017-08-09T19:54:37.006+01:00Andrew Selous, 2 July 2015, Written Answers in Han...Andrew Selous, 2 July 2015, Written Answers in Hansard:<br /><br />"Modernisation funding was allocated to the Ministry of Justice by HM Treasury in 2014/15 to bring about sustainable reductions in resource requirements across the Ministry. Some of this funding was made available for voluntary redundancies in Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs). Of this, £16.4m was spent on voluntary exit packages in 2014/15 and the remainder was allocated to CRCs on a pro-rata basis, based on their size and estimated future staffing requirements.<br /><br />Each Community Rehabilitation Company (CRC) is managed by a Contract Management Team (CMT), headed by a Senior Contract Manager and comprising staff with commercial, contract management and operational expertise to ensure a multi-disciplinary approach. The size of teams reflects the size of the contract being managed. While it is for CRC owners to implement and oversee redundancy schemes, CMTs are ensuring that CRC owners adhere to their contractual obligations in this area. CMTs are able to draw upon commercial, financial and legal expertise from within the wider Ministry in delivering this role."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-68326560071115609522017-08-09T19:38:20.701+01:002017-08-09T19:38:20.701+01:00I'm sure a case could be made for breach of co...I'm sure a case could be made for breach of contract by the MoJ for not delivering on stipulated services such as TTG or not actively supervising the under 12months cohort. Failure to deliver those aspects are just as important to renationalisation of the service as the rise in SFOs. <br />Accepting responsibility for this enormous f*** up is the biggest barrier to renationalisation. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-8484391621411723042017-08-09T19:29:31.831+01:002017-08-09T19:29:31.831+01:00Features in latest issue of Private Eye available ...Features in latest issue of Private Eye available today in the News section at the front of the paper.Andrew_S_Hattonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09115192522317353139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-22957741872586181142017-08-09T19:18:54.276+01:002017-08-09T19:18:54.276+01:00No CRC is going to walk away, just as the MOJ will...No CRC is going to walk away, just as the MOJ will not admit that TR is a failure. Its a commercial 'stand-off'. The first party to blink has to compensate the other.Anoymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12074599562838139111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-49042998262452996792017-08-09T18:46:10.547+01:002017-08-09T18:46:10.547+01:00The private probation companies have just been pro...The private probation companies have just been propped up with £22million for doing less than nothing, and for providing a service 'worse than if they did not exist'. Since money grows on trees for the CRC bosses I doubt they'll be walking away from their contracts to enable renationalisation.Probation Officernoreply@blogger.com