On Probation Blog

It's almost certainly a product of advancing years that things that seemed understood and quite straightforward years ago are now an alm...

So much evidence, so many testimonies, a tragedy of errors; it should surely be a piece of piss for unions representing staff to address the...

I notice the following was published by Clinks yesterday:- HMPPS restrictions on attendance at events  Following the tragic incidents at...

There was a time of course when notions of 'command and control' would have been complete anathema to any Probation Officer worth t...

From Napo news  online last week:- Napo meets with Justice Minister Napo, alongside colleagues from our sister unions, met with Justice Mi...

I notice the Institute for Government have published an interview  with Chris Grayling about his time as Minister for Justice and hence resp...

We've talked about Circles of Support and Accountability before  and the incredulous decision by NPS/MoJ to cease funding it. It was all...

Blimey, yet another official report  highlighting in some shocking detail the terrible state of our prisons and the very poor management by ...

On the very day I suggest  that it really is all over and 'probation' as many of us know it has been strangled under NPS civil servi...

Given the ongoing and worsening crisis in our prisons, largely brought about by Chris Grayling who of course was also responsible for wreck...