New report highlights probation system challenges
Our latest briefing, on the challenges faced by the probation system and on the importance of robust, independent inspection, is out today.
Facing challenging behaviours
I recently read through the excellent collection of readings, Beyond...
Imprints of the past affect the present
Whilst reading the wonderfully uplifting collection of client/social work stories, I...
Rehabilitative opportunities
Recently reading a critical appraisal of some of the predictable shortcomings of the government’s Transformation Rehabilitation...
Doing it the hard way
A face from the past
I recently read an article on current best practice in the delivery of domestic abuse programmes for men under supervision in the...
Acting up
Reading Julia Warrener's lively and accessible critique of Personality Disorder, I was put in mind of my work with Lindsay (not his real name) while I was a Probation Officer. Lindsay's flamboyant...
Holding fast to what probation is all about
While reading Richard Posner's insightful perspectives, How Judges Think, on judicial decision-making in the US, I experienced a flashback moment of a salutary episode near the start of...
Emerging from a troubled history
Weighing up compliance
I recently read Rob Canton’s contribution to the realities of probation practice in an excellent collection of essays, Probation and Politics, Academic Reflections from Former Practitioners....