tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post646501786921435136..comments2024-03-29T06:40:58.606+00:00Comments on On Probation Blog: Things are Turning ToxicJim Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00258147767051200157noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-42949860435675104072013-07-18T18:55:05.428+01:002013-07-18T18:55:05.428+01:00Thanks! - there is a link to Napo on the right han...Thanks! - there is a link to Napo on the right handside of this blog too. Jim Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00258147767051200157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-16285728433621994532013-07-18T18:51:35.589+01:002013-07-18T18:51:35.589+01:00All those eligible can't have already jumped s...All those eligible can't have already jumped ship surely? There must be someone who wants to put principle before personal gain?Jim Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00258147767051200157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-19371785776098471202013-07-18T18:49:44.508+01:002013-07-18T18:49:44.508+01:00Thanks for mentioning Doncaster - I'm watching...Thanks for mentioning Doncaster - I'm watching the story and will do a post on it sometime soon. There are efforts at privatising everywhere so the case against has to be put at every opportunity.<br /><br />Cheers,<br /><br />JimJim Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00258147767051200157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-46890140269687891832013-07-18T18:12:22.064+01:002013-07-18T18:12:22.064+01:00Napo can be found here:- http://www.napo.org.uk/ab...Napo can be found here:- http://www.napo.org.uk/about/napolog.cfm and on other links on that web site and via Twitter and the various branches https://twitter.com/Napo_NewsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-4130695674674904802013-07-17T05:32:30.930+01:002013-07-17T05:32:30.930+01:00Impower. And a £1.8m contract. I'm sure it wil...Impower. And a £1.8m contract. I'm sure it will be working so well in 12months time it will be rolled out nationwide.<br />Looks as though Gove has the same remit as Grayling, but being a bit smarter.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-4333774309777230032013-07-17T00:52:07.901+01:002013-07-17T00:52:07.901+01:00Very interesting news from Doncaster today. At fir...Very interesting news from Doncaster today. At first glance it would appear to be a very sneaky backdoor move to privatise social services. 10yrs before you can get it back? Who'll even remember then it was once council responsibillity?<br />Whats even more odd about this move is why Doncaster? Will Peterborough be next? Surly such a move by the government should have taken place (if it should at all) would have taken place in Bolton which has had months of national media attention focused on the councils systematic failings with childeren?<br />Am I being over synical here?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-40082482937041918682013-07-17T00:05:29.999+01:002013-07-17T00:05:29.999+01:00Many of those who might have already had golden ha...Many of those who might have already had golden handshakes and put out the door. The vacant possitions (tat technically don't exist anymore) will be earmarked ( under a differet name but same role) for those helpful souls that assisted the cause. Don't bite the hand that feeds you. <br />Beware those that hold that sentiment. When you've done your duty that hand no longer needs to feed you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-13606289268041368102013-07-16T23:44:41.651+01:002013-07-16T23:44:41.651+01:00I heard the realities of this on a shop floor meet...I heard the realities of this on a shop floor meeting in our office last week. From one of our 'executives' came the line that our Chief had been silenced. I figured you could only be silenced if you were working on the basis of pragmatism rather than ethics...the pragmatism being "it would ruin my career". Nests are being well and truly feathered, but surely there must be at least one of these Chiefs who is waiting on retirement and has the morale compass to come clean on this charade.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-82939517253157142422013-07-16T21:32:40.841+01:002013-07-16T21:32:40.841+01:00The problem isn't cowerdice. Nor is it any fea...The problem isn't cowerdice. Nor is it any fear to voice ethical and professional questions. It 's much more devious then that. They're all to busy feathering their own nests, watching and waiting to grasp their own oppertunities to worry about rights and wrongs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-65833698107823477142013-07-16T20:43:58.779+01:002013-07-16T20:43:58.779+01:00I've been trying to get my head around this ve...I've been trying to get my head around this very point. We all know it's utter shite, including the PCA, and we all know it's dangerous shite. There must come a point at which 'professionalism' just doesn't hold any water and as various commentators have been saying, ethics and principle must take precedence. <br /><br />What would I do? In the end that is the key question isn't it? I'd like to think I'd go public as a Chief and tell it like it is - it's a crock of shite! Easy to say, but you'd think one of them would, wouldn't you? <br /><br />A campaign, revolution or change of opinion often takes just one person making a stand............. Jim Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00258147767051200157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-77551106485038178372013-07-16T20:13:22.151+01:002013-07-16T20:13:22.151+01:00'During a meeting with Probation Minister Jere...'During a meeting with Probation Minister Jeremy Wright on Wednesday (June 5) Sebert Cox, PA Chairman, and Sue Hall, PCA Chair, emphasised that our professionalism in engaging with the TR programme should not be misread as meaning we no longer stood by these concerns.' This quote came to mind listening to the furore over the latest damning indictment of NHS failures. What you hear from NHS managers are pledges to learn lessons and move on, but from patient's representatives it's calls for a public inquiry, for accountability, protection for whistleblowers. The NHS, like other over-manged public services, bred a culture of fear. Menwhile the PCA empasises its 'professionalism'. The PCA claim to hold real fears about the safety of the TR proposals, but never mind they can be relied upon to work to implement the proposals as is happening up and down the country. It seems to me their professionalism is devoid of any ethics: if you believe something is truly likely to put the public at risk you should shout it from the rooftops – or even tweet it if you must. The PCA and senior managers in Trusts are cowards who don't have the courage of their convictions. And as they silence their own dissent so they seek to silence their own workforces. Probation 'leaders' are lickspittles. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-38195866737814648562013-07-16T13:13:30.745+01:002013-07-16T13:13:30.745+01:00Moral compass is a very important issue here. It m...Moral compass is a very important issue here. It may be the largest obstacle present in this public/private debacle.<br />Consider this. G4S as a private enterprise must have forcast projections and profit margins all tied up nicely before they can get their shareholder investment.<br />If they are charged with monitering joe bloggs on tag and are told this will be for say 3mths, then the cost/profit equation must be calculated.<br />The MoJ however breach poor old joe after only one week.<br />Problem! The government are not delivering the 3mth agreement that was innitally proposed to G4S. That 3mths is the commodity that G4S is trading on.<br />Therefore G4S,s financial projections costings and profits become haphazard and unmanagable. Moral compass pointing north, profit sustainabillity and happy shareholders.<br />The south pointing needle faces the MoJ. Public safety, rehabilitation and signifigant cost cutting. Their public duty is to reduce the very product its trying to sell to G4S. It's obviously a marrage coveted where deep religious and political divide exist.<br />To put it another way if you wewre a wholesaler talking to a producer about procuring tomatoes, and the wholesaler opened discussions by saying hes actively seeking to reduce tomatoe growth on a yearly basis, then maybe your shareholders wouldn'd be to pleased with you for singhing a long term contract with the supplier.<br />Its opposing points on the compass for me I'm affraid.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-30427462652599145932013-07-16T10:31:27.094+01:002013-07-16T10:31:27.094+01:00Ethics raise their head here again for me. In orde...Ethics raise their head here again for me. In order to run effectively and have all bases covered, any company must be constantly aware of its stock, distribution, its retail outlets and its wholesalers. <br />In these circumstances its humans that will be the companies stock base.<br />"Stock" just doesn't sit right with me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-21080029916700264822013-07-16T10:07:03.912+01:002013-07-16T10:07:03.912+01:00Working is the public sector now after several yea...Working is the public sector now after several years in outsourcing in the private sector I'm going to predict now that no party will come out of this looking good but the public sector will look the more foolish.<br /><br />There is still no proper comprehension about the necessity to monitor outsourced provison in the public sector. <br /><br />A random phone call to G4S saying "Oh yeah Joe Bloggs is back inside now" wont be the contractual billing end.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-67428853648569772802013-07-16T10:01:58.789+01:002013-07-16T10:01:58.789+01:00It would appear in the light of the latest NHS rep...It would appear in the light of the latest NHS report that suppression of information, and being economical with the truth are acceptable practice for government.<br />The large security firms would do well to talk to those who took contracts relating to the work scheme. I"d wager non would sign the dotted line in hindsight!<br />It really is time for NAPO to enter the fray with some aggression. Pressure is required now while the fire burns hot.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-88277281283105147612013-07-16T07:03:27.956+01:002013-07-16T07:03:27.956+01:00Only just found this blog, many thanks for the ana...Only just found this blog, many thanks for the analysis and insight which is sadly lacking everywhere else (where are NAPO?) keep up the good work, am now a daily reader!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com