A Celebration of Achievement & A Reason To Fight.

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A Celebration of Achievement.

While Transforming Rehabilitation is not a reason to celebrate, in my opinion,  the history of the excellent Probation Service, which has served this nation well, is something to celebrate and cherish.

And A Reason To Fight.

Probation Chiefs your publication, "A Celebration of Achievement" is also "A Reason To Fight? 

A logical consequence which follows on from the Probation Chiefs Association publication, is that if The Probation Service Is Worth Celebrating - It is surely worth fighting the threat of Transforming Rehabilitation!

Did you know that there is a New Petition: "The Great British Justice System is being threatened; along with you and your loved ones.

There are numerous threats posed to our Justice system currently (including the Transforming Rehabilitation agenda and the changes in Legal Aid) and we need your assistance to protect it, and in turn yourselves.

With the upcoming threat of privatisation to The Probation Service, the risk to the public and victims is likely to increase as will the wallets of private company fatcats. Millions of pounds will line the pockets as a result of victim's pain and suffering.

The current Conservative Secretary of State, Chris Grayling, is determined for private companies to be 'paid by results'. Whilst, in theory, this may sound good in terms of public money being saved, the problem is that offenders and their crimes are not as transparent as 'piece work', hence if left up to private companies (who depend on profit, not loss) disclosure of any reoffending will result in no income! Thus private companies are unlikely to follow usual protocol in terms of sharing this information with agencies such as Police and Social Services; resulting in offender risk levels being distorted, crimes going unreported, and the likelihood for collusion between offender and their privately employed rehabilitation supervisor.

Examples of private company debacles include:-

● G4S failing to provide adequate security for the London 2012 Olympic as well as overcharging the taxpayer £24million in the tagging scandal.

● Atos assessing clearly unwell individuals as fit for work and stopping their benefit payments before appeals are heard.

● Sodexo (a french catering company) running English prisons; their annual UK turnover, alone, being £1billion.

● Serco overcharging the British taxpayer £68.5million for tagging anomalies including tagging the deceased.

● Riots, rooftop protests and staff assaults at G4S operated HM Prison Oakwood; once described as Chris Grayling's "flagship" Prison.

● Capita failing to provide an interpreter at a quadruple Murder trial as it "would not be worthwhile as they would not make enough money".

● Capita approving an interpreter job application from Jajo the rabbit.

Your safety is in the hands of this ConDem government and if up to Chris Grayling, will soon be in the hands of private companies.

Please help us to stop this short-sighted and potentially catastrophic plan by signing and sharing this petition to show the government that the Probation service should remain a public entity.

We call for immediate stoppage of the "Transforming Rehabilitation" process to allow for proper scrutiny and review."  Please click to sign the New Petition.