Our Director, Richard Garside, commented on public probation services in Wales after Chief Inspector of Probation Dame Glenys Stacey had praised their leadership.
This comes in contrast to the criticism faced by community rehabilitation companies which a number of leading criminal justice experts, including Richard, have called to be taken back into public hands. ...
The Centre's director, Richard Garside, is co-signatory of a letter to Minister of Justice David Gauke.
The letter, mentioned in the weekend's Observer, expresses concern over the decision to re-let Community Rehabilitation Company (CRC) contracts. ...
Our submission to the House of Commons Justice Committee inquiry into 'Transforming Rehabilitation' has now been published on the Committee's website.
Whatever the government's original intentions, we argue in the submission, the Transforming Rehabilitation programme 'is sabotaging, rather than transforming, probation work across England and Wales'.
Rather than 'attempting to make a badly-designed system work slightly less badly', we...
Our Director, Richard Garside, has commented on the National Audit Office report, Investigation into changes to Community Rehabilitation Company Contracts, which is published today.
Richard said:
The government admitted some months ago that it had bailed out the struggling private probation companies. Thanks to the National Audit Office, we now know that the bail-out was worth a third of a billion pounds. It is unlikely to be the last bail-out the
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Richard Garside, Director of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies today commented on a damning annual report by the Chief Inspector of Probation, Dame Glenys Stacey.
'None of government’s stated aspirations for Transforming Rehabilitation have been met in any meaningful way', Dame Glenys noted. She went on to question whether the current model for probation can deliver sufficiently well'.
Speaking today, Richard said:
This really
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Almost every contract to provide probation services in England and Wales is lossmaking, according to a report in today's Financial Times (£).
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Sodexo plans to allow people under probation supervision in the community to report to electronic kiosks rather than to probation officers, The...
Paul McDowell has resigned as chief inspector of probation in England and Wales after a long conflict of interest dispute, reports PoliticsHome. Last year it was...
The Independent on Sunday has revealed a catalogue of evidence demonstrating the scale of the crisis in the Probation...
A new joint report by the Probation and Police Inspectorates on integrated offender management (PDF, new window) has concluded that it is 'a...
Troubled security company G4S may still face criminal prosecution over its alleged overcharging on electronic monitoring and prisoner escort contracts, The...
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...
