On Probation Blog

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

Monday, 17 February 2020

Police Becoming a 'One Stop Shop'

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It's almost certainly a product of advancing years that things that seemed understood and quite straightforward years ago are now an alm...
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Sunday, 16 February 2020

Pick of the Week 58

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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...
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Saturday, 15 February 2020

Command and Control 2

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I notice the following was published by Clinks yesterday:- HMPPS restrictions on attendance at events  Following the tragic incidents at...
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Friday, 14 February 2020

Command and Control

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There was a time of course when notions of 'command and control' would have been complete anathema to any Probation Officer worth t...
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Thursday, 13 February 2020

Latest from Napo 200

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From Napo news  online last week:- Napo meets with Justice Minister Napo, alongside colleagues from our sister unions, met with Justice Mi...
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Tuesday, 11 February 2020

TR According to Chris Grayling

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I notice the Institute for Government have published an interview  with Chris Grayling about his time as Minister for Justice and hence resp...
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Monday, 10 February 2020

Sad Result of a Bad Decision

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We've talked about Circles of Support and Accountability before  and the incredulous decision by NPS/MoJ to cease funding it. It was all...
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Saturday, 8 February 2020

The Power of Discussion and Debate

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Blimey, yet another official report  highlighting in some shocking detail the terrible state of our prisons and the very poor management by ...
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Friday, 7 February 2020

A Picture Worth a Thousand Words

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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...
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Thursday, 6 February 2020

Is It Really All Over?

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