On Probation Blog

Although this Spectator article  doesn't address the recent IT failures that effectively disabled much of the NPS part of probation for...

Not a week goes by without further damaging evidence of the utter failure TR has been for the probation service, a former gold standard ser...

I guess it goes without saying that most of us who've been around some time get mightily fed up when the wheel seems to be continually ...

Some time ago I was told by a well-respected source that the MoJ had a secret plan to close every court in England and Wales and move ever...

There have been extensive IT failures in NPS for over a week:- No access to any IT since Friday. Staff being asked to work from home whe...

With TR having driven out many highly-qualified probation staff, both POs and PSOs, there is now a critical shortage of staff across the boa...

As the MoJ gears up for the retendering of the failed CRC contracts, the current edition of Private Eye highlights yet another example of t...

Here we have the latest blog post , slightly edited, from Napo General Secretary Ian Lawrence:-  Could a ban on short term sentences help ...

These are indeed proving to be interesting times for Criminal Justice Policy because it transpires that at the very time Rory Stewart was fl...

As we continue to absorb the intriguing possibility of a Conservative government trying to get their party faithful to accept the notion of ...