Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) workforce quarterly statistics are not normally the most exciting read. But today’s edition will have found a wider readership than usual. With the reunification of the probation service just five weeks away (D Day is 26 June), there are mounting concerns about whether… Work with offenders interrogates the latest workforce figures...
Today’s new report by the Victims’ Commissioner, Dame Vera Baird QC, examines the provision of protections for vulnerable and intimidated victims, known as ‘special measures.’ The Commissioner found the current system is not working as well as it could with victims and witnesses falling through the gaps and not being… Work with offenders looks at today’s report from Victims’ Commission Dame Vera Baird...
A new report published today by the Fulfilling Lives team focuses on how the process of prison release for people experiencing multiple disadvantage could be improved. The Fulfilling Lives programme The National Lottery Community Fund has invested £112 million over 8 years in the Fulfilling Lives programme which consists of… Work with offenders on new research on prison release for people experiencing multiple disadvantage...
A new report published today by the probation inspectorate finds that the plans to reunify the probation service are broadly on track but raises some concerns around staffing and services. The report: “A thematic review of work to prepare for the unification of probation services” examined how senior leaders, managers… Work with offenders on today’s report on plans for reunification...
A new article by Rebecca Helm of Exeter University has found that children need protection from being pressured or incentivised into pleading guilty to crimes they have not committed. Dr Helm, as well as being a Senior Lecturer at Exeter, is a qualified solicitor in England and Wales and Attorney… Work with offenders on new research into the institutional pressure put on minors to admit criminal guilt...
A new study: Restorative Justice: enabling communication, repairing harm has just been published by the Interventions Alliance, part of the Seetec Group which currently runs three Community Rehabilitation Companies. The study looks at the impact of 173 restorative justice interventions over three years in Wales. Restorative justice (commonly known as… Work with offenders looks at new Welsh research...
New research published this week (4 May, 2021) finds that football fans who use cocaine are most likely to be aggressive towards rival fans. The research, from Martha Newson who is based at the Universities of Kent and Oxford, is based on an anonymous online survey of almost 1,500 British… Work with offenders looks at intriguing new research on a possible link between cocaine use and heightened aggression at football grounds ...
The Ministry of Justice and Office for National Statistics has published its regular quarterly statistical bulletin on “Offender Management”. The bulletin looks at all the main trends affecting the prison and probation systems covering the period of the 2020 calendar year (but going up to March 2021 for the prison… The latest offender management statistics show the impact of COVID on our justice system...
For the last two years, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Probation has been publishing a series of short research briefings under the branding of “Academic Insights”. The inspectorate commissions leading academics to present their views on specific topics, with the aim of promoting informed debate and aiding understanding of what helps… Work with offenders on today’s HMI Probation’s latest Academic Insight...
Last Friday (23 April 2021), the House of Commons Justice Committee published its report from its inquiry into the future of the probation service. The Justice Committee report welcomed the decision to re-unify the Probation Service. It warned, however, that after the disruption of the past seven years these changes… Work with Offenders on the latest Justice Committee report which looks to limit probation caseloads to 50 per officer ...