tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post7819768682624171653..comments2024-03-28T12:02:49.472+00:00Comments on On Probation Blog: What We Think We KnowJim Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00258147767051200157noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-49124245936177348752014-10-31T21:12:51.058+00:002014-10-31T21:12:51.058+00:00A privately-run prison in Mississippi holding “ser...A privately-run prison in Mississippi holding “seriously mentally ill” prisoners stands accused of being dirty, dangerous and corrupt. East Mississippi Correctional Facility, operated by Management and Training Corporation (MTC), is the subject of a lawsuit brought on behalf of several prisoners at the facility. <br /><br />After widespread criticism of conditions inside the same prison the previous operator, the GEO group, discontinued its contract with the state in 2012. At the time, the GEO group said that the prison was “"financially underperforming." <br /><br />A lawsuit first filed a year ago by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Southern Poverty Law Center alleged that “grossly inhumane conditions have cost many prisoners their health, and their limbs, their eyesight and even their lives.” <br /><br />Photos taken as part of a tour of the prison, showed “charred door frames, broken light fixtures and toilets, exposed electrical wires, and what advocates said were infected wounds on prisoners’ arms and legs,” according to the New York Times.<br />MTC are an American Company which runs private prisons in the US. They are part of the consortium which has won the bid for what was London Probation Trust. There are other horror stories on the net if you want to take a look. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-4937477475647340612014-10-29T11:55:39.230+00:002014-10-29T11:55:39.230+00:00Norfolk and Suffolk got Sodexo. Welcome letter rec...Norfolk and Suffolk got Sodexo. Welcome letter received from Sodexo Justice Services Managing Director. His name is Leech.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-68265822494890487912014-10-29T11:41:16.110+00:002014-10-29T11:41:16.110+00:00List on gov uk site under CRC PREFFERED BIDDERSList on gov uk site under CRC PREFFERED BIDDERSAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-17332754652443506112014-10-29T11:41:12.699+00:002014-10-29T11:41:12.699+00:00Having a PREFERRED BIDDER ANNOUNCED is Just a step...Having a PREFERRED BIDDER ANNOUNCED is Just a step in the process - Contracts have yet to be Let and the Bidders take over.<br /><br />The next step is when they move in to prepare to takeover and after that the actual date the contract is signed and set to become operative.<br /><br />Meanwhile The Courts may have their say if they decide their is a case to answer as far as the anticipated application by Napo for a Judicial Review is concerned <br /><br />Clearly the Government are not affording their employees the same amount of reasonableness as the employees have given them by delaying application to court even though the employers have not responded as they apparently indicated they would by 4 pm yesterday - the extra time they said they needed.<br /><br />The MOJ are using a high degree of gamesmanship, yet acting on behalf of the State (we are after all mere subjects - required to pay for it but not having it done on our behalf). <br /><br />Hopefully the media will start taking a little notice now, but seeing as very few will understand the complexity of all this (can anyone truthfully say they understand it all? - I certainly do not)Andrew_S_Hattonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09115192522317353139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-42207788987855836252014-10-29T11:38:01.587+00:002014-10-29T11:38:01.587+00:00"There were 8,259 hits to this blog yesterday..."There were 8,259 hits to this blog yesterday, far exceeding the last record which was 5,500 on 'split' day June 1st."<br /><br />A lot of those were me, refreshing to check for new information!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-55421602098721407932014-10-29T11:31:29.093+00:002014-10-29T11:31:29.093+00:00Working links is partly owned by the state?
I thin...Working links is partly owned by the state?<br />I think thats a big issue if your buying part of your own contract back???Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-28494063260300293752014-10-29T11:30:39.926+00:002014-10-29T11:30:39.926+00:00Devon Dorset and Cornwall .. Working links .. Was ...Devon Dorset and Cornwall .. Working links .. Was working links who had grayling's Back to Work Programme?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-83681313995924755272014-10-29T11:21:01.209+00:002014-10-29T11:21:01.209+00:00BGSW: Preferred Bidder: Working LinksBGSW: Preferred Bidder: Working LinksAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-36985709423187908052014-10-29T11:20:25.311+00:002014-10-29T11:20:25.311+00:00Sodexo & NACRO preferred bidders for Norfolk &...Sodexo & NACRO preferred bidders for Norfolk & Suffolk CRC tooAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-34665281752357579792014-10-29T11:16:59.340+00:002014-10-29T11:16:59.340+00:00South Yorkshire Sodexo and nacroSouth Yorkshire Sodexo and nacroAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-78030809535310630082014-10-29T11:15:28.204+00:002014-10-29T11:15:28.204+00:00Sodexo also preferred bidder for Cumbtia Lancs CRC...Sodexo also preferred bidder for Cumbtia Lancs CRCAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-34761701024543434542014-10-29T11:15:00.732+00:002014-10-29T11:15:00.732+00:00Dlnr crc have the reducing re offending partnershi...Dlnr crc have the reducing re offending partnership- ingeus uk st giles trust and criAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-36786334903413010042014-10-29T11:10:20.119+00:002014-10-29T11:10:20.119+00:00Working Links have picked up loads of areasWorking Links have picked up loads of areasAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-19369404067697050972014-10-29T11:08:32.350+00:002014-10-29T11:08:32.350+00:00Northumbria CRC just announced Sodexo!!!Northumbria CRC just announced Sodexo!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-74815733503022105162014-10-29T10:44:48.229+00:002014-10-29T10:44:48.229+00:00Same appeal process has previously resulted in con...Same appeal process has previously resulted in contracts being researched or withdrawn. Creates delays which could takes the process into purdah or beyond the election. Could be another potential deal-breaker.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-1160441125413934702014-10-29T09:44:56.381+00:002014-10-29T09:44:56.381+00:00Given the way NAPO has been treated what good woul...Given the way NAPO has been treated what good would it do!! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-65226873489245936642014-10-29T09:42:01.918+00:002014-10-29T09:42:01.918+00:00If you dont get it then will you legally challenge...If you dont get it then will you legally challenge. I would if i were youAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-76306547634804692022014-10-29T09:33:07.268+00:002014-10-29T09:33:07.268+00:00If you're learning from the work programme the...If you're learning from the work programme then it's going to be a real omnishambles indeed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-16415096629830829502014-10-29T09:31:05.358+00:002014-10-29T09:31:05.358+00:00This is very long process I can see this going on ...This is very long process I can see this going on for months. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-21267550390412353222014-10-29T09:21:36.947+00:002014-10-29T09:21:36.947+00:00Just so you know bidders don't know the outcom...Just so you know bidders don't know the outcome. We haven't been informed that the announcement is today. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-14381557074770873072014-10-29T09:17:18.059+00:002014-10-29T09:17:18.059+00:00I agree absolutely anon 8:54. Was the midnight oil...I agree absolutely anon 8:54. Was the midnight oil burning at Petty France last night whilst officials scrabbled together a response to NAPO's request? I think not. I am deeply suspicious of the request for more time and dont trust the MoJ one iota. I think manoeuvring is going on behind the scenes and I am worried. <br />DebAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-67659827577539109962014-10-29T09:08:50.273+00:002014-10-29T09:08:50.273+00:00To anon 08.40 I agree. .feel disorientated and har...To anon 08.40 I agree. .feel disorientated and hard to focus. Today is going to be a long day.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-14171355280137664002014-10-29T09:01:16.698+00:002014-10-29T09:01:16.698+00:00On probation
At the beginning of this year, the Mo...On probation<br />At the beginning of this year, the MoJ set out plans to restrict the probation service’s role to writing court reports, overseeing risk management, and handling high-risk offenders: other offenders will in future be handled by contractors, it said, while support services will be extended to the short-sentence prisoners currently released without a probation referral. Asked what the department will be focusing on as it develops these plans, Brennan explains that it’s working hard to identify both effective ways of working with offenders, and robust models for the delivery of PBR services.<br /><br />“We’ve got lots evidence about the things that help people get jobs and reduce their rates of reoffending,” she says. “And we’ve done lots of work on the kinds of things that we think the contractors will want to offer. But we don’t want to be too prescriptive about how they rehabilitate offenders. A really key thing is how we structure the contracts so that the cash flows in ways that allow people to set up and provide services, but we don’t pay for interventions that don’t achieve a result.”<br /><br />The MoJ chief also points out that her department has a fair bit of experience in commissioning offender management services: she cites London’s Community Payback scheme, in which the contractor Serco works with the probation service to manage offenders. “We start with the advantage that we have the third sector and the private sector already engaged in this over quite a long period of time, and there are a number of partnerships that are quite well established,” she says.<br /><br />Critics have complained that the MoJ’s plans suggest that services will be commissioned at a regional level, giving voluntary organisations little chance to compete against their much larger private sector competitors – and Brennan says that her department will learn from the DWP’s Work Programme, which has frequently been attacked for failing to provide the anticipated volumes of work for charities and social enterprises. “We’ve brought in advice and help from the Work Programme to help us see what works and what we need to do differently for our own sector,” she says. “We’re really conscious of the learning around that.”<br /><br />Brennan is clearly aware of the need for her department to develop stronger project management and commissioning skills, and of the complexity and scale of the programmes on which it’s embarking. That awareness, of course, does not guarantee success – but the government does now appear to recognise exactly what went wrong in the courts interpreters scheme: in its formal response to the Public Accounts Committee’s critical report, published four days after CSW’s interview with the MoJ chief, it accepted all the MPs’ recommendations (see box). So the MoJ is now moving to head off the risk that history repeats itself in the probation services outsourcing project. If its efforts are in vain, then we may well see the the wheels of government once again changing up several gears, as a team of troubleshooters flits across Whitehall – only this time, the crack troops will not be leaving the MoJ for the frontline, but arriving in Petty France to deal with the ministry’s own emerging problems.Jim Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00258147767051200157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-10807321274654061082014-10-29T08:57:28.525+00:002014-10-29T08:57:28.525+00:00It's really depressing when considering the sp...It's really depressing when considering the spin/justification that has been made by the Govt and the lack of effective parliamentary scrutiny due to various ministers' not providing full/truthful replies as demonstrated via They Work for You site. <br /><br />I don't consider I was naive to all of this in Govt, but being so close as we all are, and witnessing the dismantling of a Service without any real basis apart from profit has taken even an old cynic such as me aback. <br /><br />There is no democracy or accountability in this country. It's all going to hell in a handcart. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-44755831207418148862014-10-29T08:55:57.650+00:002014-10-29T08:55:57.650+00:00With whats going on this feels like its going to b...With whats going on this feels like its going to be like rochdale Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com