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A convicted offender cleans the wall in the Hyde Park subway, in central London
BRITAIN’S labour movement threw its weight today behind a “counter-revolution” to reverse the failing and scandal-hit sell-off of the probation service.
Under the Tories’ Transforming Rehabilitation programme all but the most serious offenders were hived off to be dealt with by private contractors.
Earlier this year Parliament’s justice select committee issued a damning report on the privatisation, saying it was “unconvinced that Transforming Rehabilitation can deliver an effective or viable probation service.”
In the current climate, it is vital to bust the myths and put forward the case for a humane and decent social security system that supports people, argues FRAN HEATHCOTE
IAN LAWRENCE welcomes the government sentencing review but warns past experience shows such words rarely translate into meaningful action
MARK FAIRHURST highlights the main issues facing officers in a long neglected service, and raised by front-line delegates at POA conference last week, including understaffing, violence, bullying and the ongoing denial of workers’ right to strike