tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post998999933381871688..comments2024-03-28T07:32:23.397+00:00Comments on On Probation Blog: Guest Blog 17Jim Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00258147767051200157noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-16127470504755893412015-01-12T22:20:07.121+00:002015-01-12T22:20:07.121+00:00Ingeus with CRI and St Giles Trust (in the amusing...Ingeus with CRI and St Giles Trust (in the amusingly acronymed Reducing Reoffending Partnership, with 90% of that partnership being Ingeus) have got the whole of the Midlands (Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire & Rutland CRC and Staffordshire & West Midlands CRC), with plans to replace the entire IT infrastructure, network and case management systems by September 2015. It's hard to imagine a continuing need for any of the IT teams in the region after that. <br />http://www.rrpartnership.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-2047996835108480372015-01-09T22:07:32.719+00:002015-01-09T22:07:32.719+00:00Yes cheers Tony - I'm the most recent leaver a...Yes cheers Tony - I'm the most recent leaver and I must say we did have a few laughs - most memorable was probably the 'sex with a horse/theft of a small ladder' one. Take care fellaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-37614413737081609392015-01-09T17:06:05.390+00:002015-01-09T17:06:05.390+00:00All quiet from Working Links in Wales. No informat...All quiet from Working Links in Wales. No information on what is happening or when. As for Innovation Wessex..................Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-22976229560083212982015-01-09T13:08:14.903+00:002015-01-09T13:08:14.903+00:00Well said, Tony. Very well said, in fact. You'...Well said, Tony. Very well said, in fact. You're missed here in the office - and so are the rest of the team. It was a pleasure to work alongside you, albeit briefly (at least in probation terms), and it's good to see you've kept your infamous sense of humour. <br />I'm now the last in the office, the least qualified member of the team. When I joined last year, it was a busy, lively (and not to mention a bastion of gallows humour), enjoyable place to work and also learn. Now I'm sitting in an office fit for 10 people, on my own, with little clue of what needs doing or how I'd even do it if it did. <br />Good luck Tony, thanks for the company and the laughs - especially your Saturday night fever routine at your desk over the last few months. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-75943229830879331892015-01-09T10:08:17.796+00:002015-01-09T10:08:17.796+00:00A politically charged hand grenade has been thrown...A politically charged hand grenade has been thrown into the general election debate on the NHS after the healthcare company Circle said it planned to pull out of its contract to manage Britain’s first privately run hospital, Hinchingbrooke in Cambridgeshire.<br /><br />Circle Holdings issued a statement to the London Stock Exchange blaming funding cuts, a surge in demand for accident and emergency services and a failure to deliver “joined up” reform between health and social services. It said the company had entered into discussions with the NHS Trust Development Authority “with the view to ensuring an orderly withdrawal from the current contract”.<br /><br />The company said that funding for Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust had been cut by about 10% for the current financial year and that the company had spent £4.84m to support the trust. Circle is allowed to withdraw from the contract if it spends more than £5m.<br /><br />Conditions had worsened in recent weeks and that its franchise to operate the trust was not sustainable, it added.<br /><br />A report by the Care Quality Commission new regime is expected to be highly critical of the hospital. The Circle statement said the report’s conclusions, which follow a preliminary report last year, would be unbalanced and that it would contest many of them. In preliminary findings released in September, the CQC reported that patients at the hospital were being neglected, hygiene was inadequate and Hinchingbrooke was facing staffing problems.Jim Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00258147767051200157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-30444754427863312152015-01-09T10:01:52.664+00:002015-01-09T10:01:52.664+00:00http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jan/09/cir...http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jan/09/circle-exit-private-contract-hinchingbrooke-nhs<br /><br />Off topic but i can see the same happening with probation once the private companies get there head round what they bought. Will theybe using same reasons when they walk away.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-68335526016836745422015-01-09T08:14:13.902+00:002015-01-09T08:14:13.902+00:00Bungling Chris Grayling blew tens of thousands of ...Bungling Chris Grayling blew tens of thousands of pounds on a failed attempt to defend his cruel ban on prison books.<br /><br />A High Court judge ruled last month that the Tory Justice Secretary’s ban on families sending books to jailed loved ones was unlawful.<br /><br />It followed a high-profile campaign led by writers including Philip Pullman, Salman Rushdie and poet laureate Dame Carol Ann Duffy.<br /><br />Now the Ministry of Justice has admitted Mr Grayling lavished £72,000 of taxpayers’ cash on legal fees in a desperate bid to uphold the ban.<br /><br />Shadow Justice Minister Andy Slaughter raged: “We all knew the ban on sending books to prisoners was a half-baked policy from an out-of-touch Government.<br /><br />“Now they have spent thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money on losing the case.”<br /><br />“Chris Grayling should focus on the bad decision-making in his own department, rather than waste public money in this way.”Jim Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00258147767051200157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-35867277450196306562015-01-09T08:11:06.187+00:002015-01-09T08:11:06.187+00:00As the NHS descends into chaos, a US healthcare in...As the NHS descends into chaos, a US healthcare insurance firm is quietly being installed to take over key front line services from GPs including providing certification to bosses for staff absences due to sicknesss. In addition employers are to be given tax breaks to fund medical treatment for staff when it has been recommended by these private sector healthcare professionals.<br /><br />The new ‘Fit for Work’ service is to be run by Maximus in England and Wales, the same company brought in to replace Atos to carry out the despised assessments for out of work sickness and disability benefits. In a major embarrassment for DWP Ministers, Fit To Work was expected to launch late last year but so far all Maximus have managed is a website and a phoneline.Jim Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00258147767051200157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-36888365562091376352015-01-09T07:03:30.755+00:002015-01-09T07:03:30.755+00:00Ous Sodexo area is also doing this. Is West Mids S...Ous Sodexo area is also doing this. Is West Mids Sodexo too?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-40365662721239427352015-01-09T05:16:41.646+00:002015-01-09T05:16:41.646+00:00Off topic, but worth a note.
http://www.mirror.c...Off topic, but worth a note.<br /><br /> http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tories-blew-72k-failed-attempt-4945066Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-74695377657123180522015-01-09T00:41:30.490+00:002015-01-09T00:41:30.490+00:00Mixed feelings about that site. Advertising? Yes. ...Mixed feelings about that site. Advertising? Yes. But there is a thread of truth in the analysis....and it does allude to 'desistance' as being just a rebrand of old values. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-30237575852764277132015-01-09T00:16:03.821+00:002015-01-09T00:16:03.821+00:00Tony thank you for sharing. May I wish you all the...Tony thank you for sharing. May I wish you all the best and my thoughts and prayers are with you and your girlfriend at this time. Very poynant reading. Teresa concerned colleaguehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06724389219301576752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-39952204306867193322015-01-08T23:07:57.449+00:002015-01-08T23:07:57.449+00:00Your going to get a lot of scam merchants looking ...Your going to get a lot of scam merchants looking for a cut of that sweet justice pie with new Systems all wrapped up in buzz words "Desistence" being the big one if favour at the moment Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-6207755409972598002015-01-08T22:21:25.455+00:002015-01-08T22:21:25.455+00:00Excellent blog Mr Getliffe. It seems there are an ...Excellent blog Mr Getliffe. It seems there are an increasing number of voices turning on TR & this wicked government. Having read some economics articles recently (with an eye on the possibility of VR) I calculated that of my £36k gross salary I pay about 50% of that in taxes, including income tax, national insurance, VAT, fuel & other duties. Meanwhile, NOMS are spending £millions in train, plane and automobile fares; MPs are due 11% pay rise & their expenses are more top secret than ever; blah blah blah.<br /><br />Sadly the recent TRagic events in Paris will be exploited by this control & restraint government - Thatcher had the Falklands, Blair brought us several special events, now let's see how Dave & co make out.<br /><br />Je suis Charlie.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-73008967353627186462015-01-08T22:21:02.336+00:002015-01-08T22:21:02.336+00:00Anon 18:34 - your comment resonates with my own fr...Anon 18:34 - your comment resonates with my own frustration. I find more recently that I frequently feel quite hopeless in being able to enable people to make changes. With our increasing caseloads we have very little time to spend with service users and little time to make the necessary referrals. We're encouraged to refer to other agencies for expertise however it feels at the moment that all the agencies are doing the same thing; signposting to other agencies, ticking boxes, no-one is actually doing the real work that is so important in enabling others. Most of the agencies are in chaos themselves and working with limited resources.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-91186304530865582992015-01-08T22:13:00.590+00:002015-01-08T22:13:00.590+00:00Yes, thank you Tony - I didn't agree with ever...Yes, thank you Tony - I didn't agree with everything, as you suggested, but I did enjoy it all.Ex-Napo membernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-9432794722305699122015-01-08T22:12:32.122+00:002015-01-08T22:12:32.122+00:00Area is DNLR and West Mids.Area is DNLR and West Mids.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-6805751040076094132015-01-08T22:11:57.928+00:002015-01-08T22:11:57.928+00:00Have a look at the previous page on that 'blog...Have a look at the previous page on that 'blog' - two sentences stand out:<br /><br />"LifeWeb – a new generation in offender assessment and management systems."<br /><br />"LifeWeb is a service user centred approach to offender management..."<br /><br />This is clearly advertising...Ex-Napo membernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-62511360507883832322015-01-08T22:04:21.747+00:002015-01-08T22:04:21.747+00:00I suspect there will be private companies able to...I suspect there will be private companies able to produce "platforms" or apps which manage a data drop from any system to ensure the NOMS demands are met. This happened with DIP and NTDMSAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-64627523460761155992015-01-08T21:11:50.032+00:002015-01-08T21:11:50.032+00:00Which area is that?Which area is that?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-90642152244343554292015-01-08T21:00:44.632+00:002015-01-08T21:00:44.632+00:00They won't be able to ditch NDelius completely...They won't be able to ditch NDelius completely as it has to be used for data reporting to NOMS and for attaching reports etc, though they might find a better contact entry database. OASys has to go, surely.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-16803395814447882682015-01-08T20:44:58.960+00:002015-01-08T20:44:58.960+00:00Thanks to all for the kind words above. Tony Getli...Thanks to all for the kind words above. Tony Getliffe.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-2884508267783344922015-01-08T20:10:49.504+00:002015-01-08T20:10:49.504+00:00Very interesting, until it gets to TR!
"Alth...Very interesting, until it gets to TR!<br /><br />"Although controversial, Transforming Rehabilitation offers hope that probation services will once again move closer to those who need them. The mere mention of the term ‘rehabilitation’ is welcome, after a long period where ‘risk management’ was presented as the only effective method of reducing harm to the public. Although the profession fears a ‘race to the bottom’, with profits coming before positive outcomes, the contracted providers have a real opportunity to find effective methods and champion rehabilitation through a return to a focus on worker and service user collaboration. Those who are brave and serious about engaging with the potential rewards of the Payment by Results agenda should create operating models that keep collaborative working with service users central to their operating models, especially if they wish to create a positive reputation.<br /><br />Their starting points will be to create an identity separate but not isolated from NOMS, and signal a move towards more effective and efficient rehabilitation and risk management methods. High on their priority lists should be a replacement system for OASys and a move to a new generation of efficient and effective assessment systems that re-focus on the relationship between provider and service user. Any other model in this high-risk sector is likely to fail, with the potential for significant reputational and financial damage for those providers where re-offending rates rise.<br /><br />Probation staff seem ready for this change and I will believe will accept a new methodology based around collaboration with service users. The challenge for contracted providers is to have the confidence to facilitate this empowerment of service users in their journeys from offending to desistance."Jim Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00258147767051200157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-1614641978770936312015-01-08T20:07:28.090+00:002015-01-08T20:07:28.090+00:00That's right. So when the SFO's start comi...That's right. So when the SFO's start coming through & you are unable to show your working out of what you did & didn't do it makes it easier for the company to get rid of staff. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-56465389087599518002015-01-08T20:03:50.371+00:002015-01-08T20:03:50.371+00:00Anon Ex-Offender....this might be interesting read...Anon Ex-Offender....this might be interesting reading for you.<br /><br />https://lifewebuk.wordpress.com/2015/01/08/from-offending-to-desistence-the-demise-of-the-probation-service-or-a-new-era/<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com