On Probation Blog

Today is the day that the House of Lords are due to debate the Probation Service. Wouldn't it be great if one or two of them might get...

We are trying to fix the unfixable here. Probation is an impossible job and people who have been here years are looking through rose tinted ...

News of  this  coupled with rapid advances in AI means we can cut out the human element completely rather quicker than previously thought!  ...

As the clock ticks on my probation career (not a social worker qualified probation officer) I grow ever more despondent about what legacy I ...

Oh deary deary me, what a pickle we're all in. In prehistoric times probation officer training entry criteria in England and Wales were ...

OFPS online training knowledge check question. Q. What does EM stand for? A. Electronic Monitoring! I sh*t you not, how condescending are th...

Having worked as a probation officer for over 25 years, the most significant change I've witnessed isn't just in caseload volume — i...

Some critics and commentators have referred to the Our Future Probation Service (OFPS) programme as "Our Futile Probation Service....

Well, it hasn't taken long for a new PM that knows nothing about criminal justice to decide the best way to proceed is to let the media,...

Typed in "recall rates uk"... this was the summary presented by whichever AI bot is hiding inside the machine: "Prison recall...