On Probation Blog

Yet again prisons, probation and the criminal justice system finds itself in the limelight. . It's all an unholy mess, its election year...

So, coming hard on the heels of emergency prison releases and Operation Safeguard, according to this Criminal Law Solicitors' Associatio...

If an army marches on its stomach, a navy gets hungry too and it's the job of Royal Fleet Auxiliary ships to supply the Royal Navy. What...

Yesterday HMI Charlie Taylor lost his patience with HMPPS and the Minister Alex Chalk MP and wrote him a letter . Probation staff must conti...

A freelance journalist is working on a story about the MoJ's plans to disband SPOs working in specialist sex offender units, and replac...

Regular readers will be fully aware that Bank Holiday Friday's are the MoJ's preferred opportunity to sneak bad or inconvenient news...

Just in case there is any doubt as to the contempt in which probation is held within HMPPS, the statement  from Napo and published on Friday...

Probation re-set, revise and regret I reset my email password today, that’s something you re-set. You do not re-set an entire organisation w...

Things round here never fail to surprise me on occasion. When on Sunday I was scratching around for something to either say or publish, I ne...

A reader tells us how they do it:- Many speak about having a good relationship with probation officers, feeling respected, listened to and t...