File on Four covers probation privatisation

Yesterday BBC Home Affairs correspondent Danny Shaw investigated the government's plans to privatise probation for the Radio Four current affairs programme File on Four.

He found lots of people who thought it the plans were a terrible idea but few who thought it was a good idea. Apart from Chris Grayling, the Justice Minister that is.

Download the podcast below.

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