On Probation Blog

An attempt to help explain the mysteries and magic that are part and parcel of 'probation'.

Thursday, 13 September 2018

Napo Not in the News

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Napo was at the TUC yesterday moving a motion about TR just as the Prime Minister was on her feet telling the House of Commons that two Prob...
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Wednesday, 12 September 2018

True Cost of TR

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Serious Further Offences are something all Probation Officers live in fear of and particularly the subsequent investigation. From the beginn...
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Monday, 10 September 2018

Where Are The Men?

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As we continue to 'mark time' whilst the sham probation 'consultation' exercise is undertaken, we might as well take a look ...
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Friday, 7 September 2018

Wits' End

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Regular readers will be aware that I'm contemptuous of the current MoJ 'consultation' on the future of probation. Grayling's...
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Thursday, 6 September 2018

Voluntary Sector Pitch

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I saw a couple of interesting tweets today and they serve to highlight how the voluntary and third sector are pitching strongly for a big sl...
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Wednesday, 5 September 2018

What Future for Probation? 4

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We all know that the voluntary and third sector were tricked into believing they would have a central role in delivering TR first time aroun...
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Tuesday, 4 September 2018

No Easy Answers

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In trying to make sense of what happens next to the Probation Service now that there's wide acceptance that TR has been, as predicted, a...
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Monday, 3 September 2018

Responses to Demise of TR 6

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Here we have some thoughts on probation training post TR from the Probation Institute in their latest magazine:- Probation Training and Qual...
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Saturday, 1 September 2018

Probation in a Post TR World

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Granada has been investigating the worrying number of SFO's:-  LICENSED TO KILL: The shocking number of killings carried out by crimin...
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Jim Brown
A grumpy, disillusioned, CQSW trained, generic, main grade probation officer based in a small English town. All my contemporaries have either left, retired or been promoted. Newer colleagues simply don't understand the journey I've been on from advise, assist and befriend. (If there is anyone of similar name in the NAPO handbook, it's not me).
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