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The entire probation service needs bringing back into public control
STEVEN WALKER takes a look at Chris Grayling’s disastrous probation overhaul

THE news that 80 per cent of the probation service will be brought back under public control has been welcomed across the sector and by the National Association of Probation Officers (Napo) trade union.

But this won’t happen until the end of 2020, when much could change, and it still leaves a fifth of the service in the hands of profiteer private hands. 

The grim consequences of “Failing” Grayling’s privatisation in 2014 has just been revealed, showing what happens when profits come before people.

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