tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76228451962206345682024-03-08T12:44:22.182-08:00Probation VoiceUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger87125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7622845196220634568.post-52990395184958676702014-03-18T01:21:00.001-07:002014-03-18T01:21:25.072-07:00A Fine Message From Pat Waterman<blockquote class="uncited" style="background-color: #ebeadd; background-image: url(http://www.napo2.org.uk/phpBB3/styles/prosilver/theme/images/quote.gif); background-position: 6px 8px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 1px solid rgb(219, 219, 206); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.1875px; margin: 0.5em 1px 0px 25px; overflow: hidden; padding: 25px 5px 5px;">
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">TO: NAPO Greater London Branch MEMBERS</span></span></span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #ff0080; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Don’t mourn. Organise</span></span></span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />On the eve of his execution in 1915, the Swedish-American trade union organiser Joe Hill had a surprisingly upbeat message to pass to Bill Haywood, a fellow Industrial Workers of the World activist: <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Don’t waste any time in mourning. Organise.”</span></span></div>
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<br style="background-color: #e1ebf2; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: #e1ebf2; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: #e1ebf2; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Aside: - In Folk Music circles there is a famous song about Joe Hill - which has been featured at least once on the Folk Music aficionado - Mike Harding's (Of Rochdale Cowboy and Formerly the BBC 2 Radio Folk Music programme fame) - Internet radio show - <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />I found a version here: - <a class="postlink" href="http://mhfs.podomatic.com/entry/2013-03-17T14_37_01-07_00" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(93, 143, 189); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #5d8fbd; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; unicode-bidi: embed;">http://mhfs.podomatic.com/entry/2013-03-17T14_37_01-07_00</a> - Number 6 - 20 minutes 45 seconds from the start.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Back to the GL Bch Email: -</span></span><br style="background-color: #e1ebf2; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.1875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br />
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Having been subjected to sifting and sorting, case validation exercises, and now training in quite what nobody is really sure, many of you are being invited to parties to mourn the loss of your LDU.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">LPT may be coming to an end but let me assure you that the fight being mounted by this union is far from over.</span></span></span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Your Chief Executive, having reported on her mad social whirl this past week, tells you that :<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"now we have the serious business to attend to of ensuring the NPS and CRC can function effectively and that service users have a positive experience".</span></span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />I advise you all to read the email from your National Chair and General Secretary, sent earlier today, and the email from Mike McClelland, National Official, detailing the discussions taking place between the unions and the MOJ. The message of this union to you all is clear.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The chances of the NPS and CRC functioning effectively are becoming more and more unlikely by the day.</span></span></span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />As I have said on more than one occasion it will start to get really interesting as potential buyers start to look at the CRC’s and wonder quite what it is they might be buying. They will be looking for something that functions effectively and efficiently with a willing and compliant workforce.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Is that what we are?</span></span></span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />At the SGM in Birmingham on 5th March our General Secretary announced further strike action from 12 noon on Monday 31st March and all day on Tuesday 1st April. I am writing to you all to ask you to support this action. The government’s plans cannot be implemented without our cooperation. They need our skills and expertise. We need to show them what we feel and strike action is one way of doing so.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Placards and leaflets will be available for distribution at the branch meeting this Friday 21st March. We will also be discussing how best to organise this action. We can build on our experience from our previous strike last November. Contacts with local papers and radio have already been made and should be quickly re-established. Please contact the branch officers for help, advice and support in organising local picket lines<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Following the success of our “battle bus” last time we will be planning another one to travel round Central London on Tuesday afternoon. All are welcome but priority will be given to those who did not go on the bus last time. Please send your names to Mail London NAPO.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />We will also be planning a march from BPR to the MOJ to give Chris Grayling a birthday surprise he will always remember.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">So let us not mourn the loss of LPT but let us focus our energies on organising and defeating the government’s plans to destroy and privatise the probation service. Striking is one plank in our armoury. We need to make it successful to send a clear message to Mr Grayling.</span></span></span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #ff0080; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Probation is not for sale</span></span></span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pat Waterman Branch Chair</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This blog started as a rant about the way the government are dealing with me and my colleagues in Probation-land. More people have visited my blog than I imagined, and I keep bumping into people who have read a blog entry, and then made positive comment. </span><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">The blog has helped me to come to terms with Transforming Rehabilitation, and given me stronger views which are opposed to the privatisation of public services. But the mystery of TR is still unexplained, and it's full impact upon probation colleagues is unexplainable - </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">it does not add up, or make any sense.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I suppose I have got a policy of just having a go at the coalition government, who I see as fair game, and so unlikeable, rather than having a go at individuals. Also, I personally do have respect for my top managers in my trust, who I know don't like TR, and who have done their fair share of communicating to MP etc about their concerns. But TR is what it is, and we have been forced to move forward with it.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Today, I listened to the radio which was playing old extracts from Tony Benn speeches, and I agreed whole-heartedly with him, that government needs to be by the people and for the people. Rather than a government by the rich, for the rich. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Like many of my colleagues, I was expecting the House of Lords outcome, but when it came I was still gutted, and left feeling deflated. Transforming Rehabilitation is now legally established and the split will go ahead. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">After the sale of the CRC's, if there is a sale, I expect to lose my job, as I believe that part of TR is about the government employing big business to make me redundant, in order to give my job to a lower paid worker. I could be wrong, because sometimes I am, but time will tell.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I must admit I struggle with the demands of both home and work together. My wife's early retirement due to Multiple Sclerosis, has increased my responsibilities at home, and Transforming Rehabilitation has increased my responsibilities at work. My own struggle with dyslexia has also made me fear that my own capabilities might not cope with the demands set before me. Maybe, I should not fear redundancy, as I have paid for my home, and love being there, but I do fear being cast aside, and having little hope for the future in regards to future employment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Being an ex-prisoner has never been an issue at work really, as the Probation Service employed me, in part, because of my history, at a time when the POP's teams were being created. One of my proudest achievements was to work beside police officers for near on ten years, and to be able to work together in a positive way. I still remember the way a bit of praise for progress made from a police officer, towards a client could help give a person real get up and go as they worked towards positive change. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Things have moved on in Probation-land from when I could really get alongside clients by: doing lots of home visits; playing badminton; going running, swimming and walking as part of an intense program. My wife then a PO, aways used to say that I had one of the best PSO jobs in the service, and she was right. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Training was given to me in abundance, and I was one of the first PSO's to complete the NVQ. I remember that I was always asking for permission from my SPO to take training days, for which I was entitled. My SPO eventually said, "just take what you need, you don't have to ask for permission, I know that you wont take advantage", and I didn't, but I appreciated the trust which was extended to me. However, I then applied for the PO training, and passed the presentation with flying colours, but my achille's heal of putting thoughts into writing let me down, and I was told that the written exercise gave concerns about my ability to cope with the studies. I then completed two of the modules of the PO training with good passes, which to my mind proved that I could study at the level required, but alas, it was not enough to get me on the course, and I watched many of my PSO colleagues progress with their further development. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So training days are over, and the task ahead, which is going to be a considerable one, I think, will be just keeping up with changes and the programs introduced by Transforming Rehabilitation. When the task is complete, I think that this will lead to my redundancy. Happen, I haven't got a very positive employment outlook, but this government has clouded over any positive outlook I have had (and I know I'm not alone in this).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm on leave from work now for the next two weeks, and have left my colleagues angry at the Celebration Of Achievement conference which has been set up by management. Many people in my office don't want to go, and there is talk of boycotting it. I personally don't have a problem with celebrating the many achievements of the Probation Service, and separating all that positive stuff from Transforming Rehabilitation. However, I'm on leave so will not be attending.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anyway, I've just read what I've written, and realised that I am a better writer, when I'm quoting other people, and I've got a bit of structure. But it is what it is, just like TR which is </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">impacting so many public servants, in so many ways, and I've just ended up with a few rambling thoughts.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">"The Ugly Duckling" is a literary fairy tale by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Anderson(1805 – 1875). The story tells of a little bird born in a barnyard who suffers abuse from the others around him until, much to his delight (and to the surprise of others), he matures into a beautiful swan, the most beautiful bird of all. The story is loved by many around the world as a tale about personal transformation for the better<br><br>My Probation colleagues could relate with this in regards to the plans of Transforming Rehabilitation because In original story the "ugly duckling" was really a cygnet but nobody realised, and although the Probation Trusts are a quality service which has served this nation well, the Moj and NOMS have failed to recognise this, and have abused staff and their service. Like the other ducklings in the story, the MoJ and NOMS have acted without good evidence and too little knowledge.<br><br>Now on that slant probation workers might be able relate with the story. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">However, Transforming Rehabilitation trainers in my Probation Trust have come up with an novel slant to the story. During a Transforming Rehabilitation briefing this week, </span><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">an analogy was given of the journey staff will we make from Trusts to CRC/NPS over the period from April to June. The trainer painted the picture of a fast flowing river with two banks. The ugly ducklings leave one bank ( 1st April into shadow CRC/NPS) and paddle, paddle paddle to get to the other side. Some of the ducks will get to the other side easier than the others, we were told. But once they get to the other side (CRC/NPS June 1st) they will become like beautiful swans! To be fair the briefing was quite informative, but the analogy was difficult to relate with - and as a colleague remarked, </span><i style="font-size: large; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">"more like sinking ships than paddling ducklings!"</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anyway, I reckon I might be a duckling </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">with a paddling defect and stability problems. I left NAPO last month and rejoined this month. I wont go into the negatives, but the positive is that I needed to be part of the Strike action on the 31st March and 1st April, as I'm struggling to become a beautiful swan. I filled out the NAPO registration form: Have you been a member of NAPO previously - "Yes". When - "Last Month";o) Oh well! I'm still in the water of transforming rehabilitation and the privatisation of a quality Service which has served this nation well - Quack Quack, Paddle Paddle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We are all aware of the saying, “The tail wagging the dog” and I think that we are becoming more and more aware that the big Corporations are now wagging this Government.<span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yesterday I collected a palm tree I had purchased on Ebay very cheaply (not my daughter on the right).</span><span style="font-size: large;"> The previous owner told me that the tree had gone from pillar to post, as he had moved house numerous times and its current environment was no longer supporting it, due to an exposed coastal climate and because it needed to be planted in the ground, and not a barrel. He told me that he paid £360 for the plant 10 years ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The mission of planting the above got me thinking while I was digging a big hole about how I had once uprooted myself within the community, having spent most of my teens and earlier twenties in children's home, detention centre, borstals and prisons. At this time most people I knew was involved in criminal behaviour and for me it was a cycle of in and out of institutions, and living with no fixed address and moving from pillar to post. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then instead of going back to prison, Leeds Crown Court surprised me by sending me to Cardigan House Probation Hostel, which became a turning point for me. I didn't like living in Leeds at first, but coming to the end of myself, and with support and assistance I began to take positive moves away from the situation I was in. There in that hostel a PO and PSO duo (Dave & Lynne) were both challenging and inspiring. Since then I have always wanted to work in a Probation hostel, but sadly all my attempts have failed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Added assistance came to me from many people over the years, such as a married couple, both ex-police officers, who gave me a place in their home for over a year while I was working towards going to college. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">All I can say is there was considerable work involved in getting my palm tree into a place where it can put down roots and hopefully thrive. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We are all individuals, which make up society and I believe that government should not wash its hands of those who have been cast adrift, with no stake, and who have become refugees from mainstream society. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As <a href="http://probationmatters.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/bidders-5-reasons-to-say-no.html">Jim Brown</a> says Probation <i>"clients are not widgets and cannot be processed as such. There isn't a day that goes by that doesn't see the government making the process of rehabilitation that much more difficult for probation clients. Many have serious health problems, but Atos assessments pronounce them fit for work. A lot lead chaotic lives due to mental health issues or drug and alcohol dependency and often miss appointments. They get sanctioned by Job Centre Plus and have no money. They become homeless quickly due to rent arrears brought on by the bedroom tax or any number of other new taxes being dreamt up by Chris Grayling."</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's no good saying look after yourselves and meet your obligations. Some People need support and assistance. Some people are uprooted and can't meet their obligations and duties without appropriate interventions. I'm proud that I have now worked in my Probation Trust for nearly 15 years, and I meet many people who I have been privileged to support and assist with putting down roots.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Since the 1980's the Probation Service has gradually been uprooted itself, with dictates and under resourcing by successive governments, and increased governmental controls have pushed less meaningful contact with those people who need support. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">David Scott, the former chair of the Probation Chiefs Association in 2009 said, <i>"The emasculation of the Probation Service over the past ten years has been accompanied by political apathy and public indifference. At the beginning of this Millennium there was much talk of giving Probation a national voice and a strengthened role in the Criminal Justice System. At the end of the decade, Probation has been pushed from pillar to post. Far from having a national voice, the organisation, which at any one time supervises 200,000 plus offenders in the community, is not even represented in its own right in key national decision-making fora but subsumed within a vast Prison Service dominated bureaucracy. A national asset is being squandered".</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The asset has been squandered and successive governments have gradually put the Probation Service on a Restraining Order in regards to the service needed. Now the current state of affairs is that the Probation Trusts are to be, in the words of a comment made on my blog, <i>"pulled up by the roots and chucked aside"</i> by this Government. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In a way, I was like my palm tree, uprooted and with stunted foilage, which required work to get it planted in a place where it can put down roots and flourish. My wife says it wasn't "love at first sight" but "plastic black bag at first sight" - as I walked into college for 4 year course with all my possessions, shortly after failing my English o'level.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is very sad to see the demolition of yet another public service. A public service which is needed, for supporting and assisting people who have been uprooted and who have no stake in society, as well as for it's public protection work. Some people do need meaningful work, in regards to public protection work and in supporting people to put down roots, so that they can come to a place where they are able to undertake their duties and obligations as citizens within society.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">William Buck sums things up well when he says <i>“We're essentially seeing people forced into refugee status. The experts say the major thing in preventing recidivism is to allow offenders to rebuild their lives, put down roots. But because of feel-good, poorly-thought-out, knee-jerk reactions by politicians, the effect is to increase recidivism.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Phew! Operation Palm tree is now behind me, and it is now planted in my garden, after struggling and digging to get the hole big enough for it's base. My family laugh, and some of my colleagues too, as I have names for my plants, and my new and tallest palm is called, "Georgina". But alas, would you believe it, I too find myself on a Restraining Order ;o) My wife has said that there are to be no more Palm Tree's in our Garden. Wife's not fair;o)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">THERE’S a ride at Blackpool called the Big One which after a slow start hurls you around in every possible direction at a breakneck speed. Eventually you end up back where you started, but with your hair still standing on end.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was Joe Kuipers who got me thinking about a roller coaster ride yesterday when he tweeted, "A two year roller coaster ahead?" in regards to the twists, turns and dips of </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">privatisation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Unfortunately, the analogy eventually breaks down because I think it unlikely that we will ever get back to where we started. I would be surprised, and very pleased, if Sadiq Khan ever gets his hands on any unsigned TR contracts in 2015.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-large;">1) CRR Partnership</span><span style="font-size: large;"> is a joint venture between Carillion, Reed in Partnership and the Rehabilitation for Addicted Prisoners Trust (RAPt). Together we bring combined strengths and experience to the Home Affairs and Justice market, along with a shared vision and a commitment to improving our society, reducing crime and making communities safer. We do this by breaking the cycle of offending and giving offenders the opportunity, confidence and ability to make positive and long term changes to their lives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As a partnership we have considerable experience of building sustainable supply chains, transferring of staff, mobilisation of large scale, multi-site operations, management of payment-by-results contracts, risk management and the development of innovative end-to-end integrated solutions.</span></div>
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Transforming Rehabilitation is the Government’s project for the most radical overhaul of the probation service in its 106 year history. The Ministry of Justice plans to retain the supervision of high-risk offenders within the public sector, and commission work with low and medium risk offenders to the private and voluntary sectors. The Government intends that new providers will be delivering rehabilitation services from April 2015.</div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-large;">2) A4e </span><span style="font-size: large;">we’re committed to tackling the underlying causes of crime and offending, and to giving offenders and ex-offenders a ‘second chance’. To achieve this, we deliver programmes that help those being released from prison or serving a sentence in the community. Programmes that deal with the root causes of their offending, so they can live a crime free life and make a positive contribution to society.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We believe that every prisoner or offender should be engaged in work-focused activities. To give them the chance to build the practical and vocational skills they need to survive in the labour market. And we’ve helped tens of thousands of people with a criminal record to develop skills and qualifications while either in prison, serving a community sentence, or on Unpaid Work/ Community Payback.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We also deliver through-the-gate and resettlement support to people leaving custody. This includes helping offenders get free, independent advice on debt issues through our national Money Advice Service. And we help them find work through contracts like the Work Programme – where individuals can sign-up for employment support before being released. We’ve also provided specialist support to former substance misusers and the homeless, through initiatives such as progress2work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Delivering better for less. In future we welcome building upon existing relationships and strengthening partnerships with government to deliver better for less in policing, courts and other operations within home affairs and justice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br />A warning sign comes from the USA, who are a few twists, turns and dips ahead of us, in regards to the future of outsourcing the Criminal Justice System:<br /><br /><ul>
<li><i>"thousands of young men and women unjustly punished and penalized in the name of corporate profit" </i> ...read more - <a href="http://t.co/24oyjraZMQ">http://t.co/24oyjraZMQ</a></li>
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<br />After Plenty of Twists, turns and dips could profit become more important than people:<br /><br /><ul>
<li><i>"Every year, US courts sentence several hundred thousand misdemeanor offenders to probation overseen by private companies that charge their fees directly to the probationers"</i>.....read more - <a href="http://t.co/aUNOqfz8X7">http://t.co/aUNOqfz8X7</a></li>
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<br />Indeed, Brace yourself there are real dangers with the Privatisation of the Probation System:<br /><br /><ul>
<li>"<i>The privatization of the probation "industry" (as it is in this context) has caused many people to suffer tremendously despite the fact they have committed minor offenses</i>".....read more <a href="http://www.duseklaw.com/blog/2014/02/the-dangers-posed-by-a-privatized-probation-system.shtml">http://www.duseklaw.com/blog/2014/02/the-dangers-posed-by-a-privatized-probation-system.shtml</a></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yesterday, I completed a challenge walk with 14 other participants. Fifteen and a half miles from Hathasage over to Bakewell. The reason why it was such a challenge was because of the conditions, and the furthest distance I have covered in recent months was a journey of four miles. The rhythm of walking, running and swimming seems to have escaped me ever since my wife was retired on ill-health from my Probation Trust, which I suppose left us both adjusting to another challenge. Anyway, the paths were quagmires or streams, the streams were rivers, and the rivers were raging torrents. My wife's newly installed wet room proved to be a great end to the challenge, while warming up under a hot shower, I discovered a handy little shelf for my bottle of lager. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am now adjusting myself to the challenge of working in a Community Rehabilitation Company and with the new Offender Rehabilitation Bill which on the positive side should give plenty of extra work, but on the negative side will leave behind the landmark of a quality public service. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My previous highly rated Senior Probation Officer i</span><span style="font-size: large;">s now the chief of the new </span><span style="font-size: large;">Community Rehabilitation Company</span><span style="font-size: large;"> i</span><span style="font-size: large;">n my area, and has told me that she intends to make a go of things. I was able to suggest that she provide as much information for staff regarding the </span><span style="font-size: large;">Community Rehabilitation Company</span><span style="font-size: large;">, as soon as possible. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's an emotional experience to be on the last leg, and at the end of an era. As I said previously I am very thankful for being able to have had an input within a national landmark such as the Probation Service, but for personal reasons I am even more thankful for the output of the Probation Service in general. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I can't agree with the idea of the privatisation of the Probation Trusts for reasons expressed in previous blogs, but I now have to prepare myself for the course this government has taken, and for my place in an eventual privatised company.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One consolation I have is that whatever happens, I rec<span style="font-size: large;">kon I </span>will be with good colleagues, my new Chief Officer included.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The following phrase has been important to me, from around the time I was a criminal who had a personal "Damascus Road" experience, over thirty years ago now in Cardigan House Probation Hostel - it's the phrase, "All's well that ends well". </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Recently, I did a training course entitled, "Preparing for Change" which was provided by my Probation Trust which</span><span style="font-size: large;"> helped to remind me of what's important in my life, and that there is more to me than my employment.</span></div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">If I'm going to be made redundant as soon as my Community Rehabilitation Company is purchased by the cheapest bidder, I'm still aiming for "All's Well That Ends Well". </span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">If the conditions of my employment are whittled away, I'm still aiming for "All's Well That Ends Well". </span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In my book, "All's Well That Ends Well" just means sticking to the road I've chosen as a person. I've always given my best in Probation and will do the same in my </span><span style="font-size: large;">Community Rehabilitation Company</span><span style="font-size: large;">. <b>Transforming Rehabilitation may not end well</b>, but that is outside my sphere of influence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As somebody rightly said, Transforming Rehabilitation is an "Unwelcome Choice", and I have now chosen to accept the challenge ahead, of working in my </span><span style="font-size: large;">Community Rehabilitation Company</span><span style="font-size: large;">, and I will do my best from the outset, even in choppy waters!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7622845196220634568.post-81691938992007895922014-02-05T06:59:00.001-08:002014-02-05T07:11:21.162-08:00Lord Beecham: Carrying on regardless: ePolitix.com<div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">5th February 2014<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Shadow Justice Minister Lord Beecham has major concerns about Government proposals affecting prisons and the probation service. These will be raised in a Lords debate this week.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">In the past few years, Bills have often come to the Lords poorly drafted and frequently with but cursory examination, to the extent that they reach us in part sight unseen by MPs. The Coalition has pressed on with legislation paying scant attention to the views of, for example the Joint Committee on Human Rights or Draft Bill or Select Committees in the Commons, designed to provide a measure of pre-legislative scrutiny.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">We have had examples of ‘pre-legislative implementation’ – a phrase I coined in relation to what happened under the Public Bodies Bill, where the abolition of Regional Development Agencies was proposed. Ministers gave repeated assurances that there would be consultation and that each case would be considered on its merits. Even so, they pressed ahead as if the Bill had been enacted, and effectively stripped the RDAs of their staff budget and assets without any consultation long before Royal Assent.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Similarly, the Constitution Committee criticised the Coalition over the proposed abolition of the Youth Justice Board and the Office of the Chief Coroner; and the Health and Social Care Bill aroused similar concerns. But the most worrying and immediate example of pre-emption (the topic of a debate in the Lords on Thursday afternoon) is currently in process. It concerns the future of something with a critical impact on public safety and the lives of those for whom it is responsible, namely the award winning Probation Service.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The government has set its stall on privatising 70% of this service, without properly piloting how the new system would work. Indeed, it cancelled the only pilot involving a probation trust, dealing with offenders with non-custodial sentences, and is reliant on the flimsy evidence of early reports from two very different schemes in Doncaster and Peterborough prisons.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">There is huge concern about the risk to the public of outfits like G4S, Serco and other organisations who purport to be able to deliver almost any public service without prior experience. This is particularly acute as offenders move between risk categories. A binary system is clearly unsatisfactory.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Last year, Crossbencher Lord Ramsbotham, a former Chief Inspector of Prisons, and I moved amendments to the Offender Rehabilitation Bill, without which the matter would never even have been discussed. Ministers clearly wished to avoid including their proposals in their legislation, knowing the opposition it would face, and pressed on with the reorganisation and fragmentation of the service. Even after the House of Lords had heavily backed our amendment and defeated the government, they carried on regardless.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">They continue to do so now, even though their timetable has slipped beyond the recklessly adopted target date of, appropriately enough, April 1st; and under the cover of a misrepresentation of which the Lord Chancellor should be ashamed. Chris Grayling makes much of the reoffending rate of prisoners released after serving short sentences, as if this was something for which the Probation Service is responsible, when he must know it is not.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">All in all, this is the latest example of a government treating Parliament with contempt. If the Coalition gets its way on this issue it will be signing a blank cheque in its own favour, enabling it to act first, and legislate, afterwards.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Jeremy Beecham is Shadow Justice Minister in the House of Lords</span></div><div><br></div><a href="http://centrallobby.politicshome.com/latestnews/article-detail/newsarticle/lord-beecham-carrying-on-regardless/#.UvJRupHdl0Q.blogger">Lord Beecham: Carrying on regardless: ePolitix.com</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7622845196220634568.post-29182769622642789202014-02-04T07:14:00.002-08:002014-02-04T14:18:35.398-08:00Dire Straits<span style="font-size: large;">Jim Brown wrote yesterday in regard to the need for more communication from NAPO in the <a href="http://probationmatters.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/growing-unease.html#comment-form">On Probation Blog</a>:</span><br>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;">My MP, Priti Patel is working from the backbenches. They seem to be driving through their reform agenda as ruthlessly as folk like Aneurin Bevan drove the Labour nationalizing reforms did in the 1945 Government but not as openly. They realise that this maybe their only chance before the 2015 general election and they have found some dupes like Lord McNally to help them. I am not sure about Cameron and Clegg but we seem stuck with it now.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;">However, it is not too late to save localized unified probation service(s) but an absolute refusal to collude is vital. I personally would not work in any way for either a CRC or NPS & would do an alternative lowly paid job if that was the only alternative. However, I am retired and so not so challenged as others are. I remember with shame that I colluded with the dreaded 1991 CJA rather than leave probation again - I had tried (for a few months) a locum Social Services job and it did not give me the autonomy that being a probation officer then did and the support staff were very limited and weak, unlike in probation.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;">Napo's HQ is stretched and weakened as a consequence of the energy & money needed to clear up the disasters that came because there was not enough membership control of what was going on centrally. It seems that many fail to understand that Napo is US not THEM - I guess they grew up in the age of consumerism, rather than having a sense of shared responsibility for ALL that happens in the public sphere of life in the UK! We need to remember that we have never had a fully functioning democracy that takes its authority from the collective voice of all people - we are subjects - maybe not exactly of the sovereign but of the government(s) our UK system throws up. I envy those in Northern Ireland, Scotland and even Wales who have more autonomy, but equally more individual responsibility for their governance, both locally and nationally, than us in England.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Taken from Information given by Joe Kuipers excellent Blog, "<a href="http://joekuipers49.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/latest-tr-update-3-february.html">Probation Review - A New Look</a>", please click to read the <a href="http://joekuipers49.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/latest-tr-update-3-february.html">full letter</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"> 'A series of events is being held around the country for volunteers who will then return to Trusts to cascade this training down to all staff. This will be done through a series of training and briefing events. The aim is to prepare all staff for the new ways of working and the new organisations themselves. Amongst other things, this will include a whole raft of new operating procedures post-split - case-allocation, risk escalation, breach, parole reports, recall, revocation etc. These have been issued but bear all the hallmarks of hurried preparation. The starting point obviously isn't a good one i.e a large gap between two organisations, which everybody recognises will create additional problems. The new procedures, as solutions, are less than perfect. This is recognised by NOMS and they are subject to change - which is not entirely helpful when the local training is due to start quite shortly.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><br />The grievance seems to have been dismissed out of hand <br /><br />The appeal for the post I do/did was a waste of time as the decision was always a lost cause due solely to leave taken <br /><br />I wanted more I think from those voted to lead and I wanted to continue giving it 100% . <br /><br />I know it is difficult but what about a strike of a week or so to see what impact that has".</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><i>"I too would like to see a plan of action. I am keen to strike, voted with members to do so, and boycott TR training. But even the unions can't unite for something as massive and monumental as Privatisation. I hope we will unite and fight before it is too late - but the Government are doing a good job in dividing us. Seems like: CEO's, not all but on the whole, are all about celebrating the past and just drifting with the tide into their new positions; Unions, I feel, are too absorbed with the Probation Institute - I received an email with about 20 documents regarding it last week at work. Now we have people/staff being herded into their different CRC/NPS pens with the divisions that they will bring. The Unions called for action and campaigning now they need to make a decision to follow-through with all that we have, or fold. A union rep warned me about making myself vulnerable last week for writing to both CEO's (to be of NPS/CRC) about an allocation issue in regards to colleagues, and that I should leave things to official channels. There is a lot of anger brewing in probation staff who will start making themselves vulnerable, if not led, and if we can't all share in the plan of action. In other words, we don’t want to be playing "Blind Man's Buff" at this stage (see earlier blog -<a href="http://probationvoice.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/blind-mans-buff.html">http://probationvoice.blogspot.co.uk/20 ... -buff.html</a> ), anymore than we have too, anyway".</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A series of 'talks' will be taking place in Parliament over the coming months centred around the theme of creating a 'People's Parliament'. The idea behind the initiative is for a range of people to be invited to speak on a subject in which they are a specialist in order to foster debate about the state of the country, the political scene more broadly and to encourage discussion around a progressive agenda which addresses these issues.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The panel includes Napo Genersal Secretary, Ian Lawrence, as well as PJ McParlin the National Chairman of POA, Frances Crook Director of The Howard League and Elfyn Llwyd MP in the chair.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A full schedule of our events including notable speakers such as Owen Jones, Mark Serwotka, Michael Mansfield QC and George Monbiot, and can be found on our website, twitter or facebook. An article launching the initiative was recently published in the Guardian and can be <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/20/2015-election-debate-peoples-parliament">read here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So many cuts and more planned. The Leicestershire and Rutland NAPO branch say in the face of the the cuts to the Probation Trusts, <i>"We now need...the Ministry of Justice to eat a bit more humble pie and stop the dangerous privatisation of probation".</i></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: large;">The Ministry of Justice is pushing through its Transforming Rehabilitation plans to outsource 70% of the Probation Service's work by the end of 2014. Napo believes that the true motivation behind this is to drive down costs and an ideological commitment on the part of the government to the private sector being the preferred bidder as opposed to state run services.<br /><br />If these plans proceed it will lead to fragmentation of the service, staff cuts (that is how the government will make its savings and the companies their profit) and will severely compromise public protection.<br /><br />Napo is campaigning vigorously to defend the Probation Service from this threat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The MoJ has a relentless PR strategy which exists to pretend everything is on time, on budget, and that all staff resistance is futile. It’s a load of nonsense but, understandably, it does sometimes get under your skin. Here’s a few myth busters that will should raise morale:</span><br /><br />Slippage to timetable<br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">The MoJ is contorting itself to pretend this is not a delay. Remember when the staff split would be done and dusted in August 2013, the shares sold in April 2014? Now it looks like a struggle to get this done by the end of the year. There is still no credible person out there who believes the government can privatise before the next election. A civil servant recently said the “extension” in the timetable was in recognition of the fabulous work the Trusts were doing. I nearly burst out laughing. </span><br /><br />Grievances and Appeals<br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">The MoJ is publicly saying that the unions have agreed to the staff split process. This is categorically untrue. It is still the subject of a dispute and such a dogs dinner that post-split, some Trusts have found they have left either the CRC or the NPS without enough staff. Branch Chairs have been given a questionnaire to fill in about the whole process which will provide us with essential evidence of where things have gone wrong. If you’re unhappy with how you have been treated, you must register a grievance to protect yourself. Put in your appeal. Branches who have been denied the information on which to base an appeal have registered disputes. We should not be expected to help smooth over such a chaotic and discriminatory process. Feedback from members is that equality issues are causing a panic- as well they should because there was no proper impact assessment. My grievance hearing is on the 11th Feb 2014.</span><br /><br />The Probation Institute<br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">The MoJ has given £90,000 to help the start-up of the Institute and that is the beginning and end of their involvement. The money was very welcome but I am increasingly frustrated when they say they are “working closely” on the development of it. That is not true because the first principle and practice of the Institute is that it is independent. The Minister understands this but those directly below him wheel out the Institute as a defence against criticisms of privatisation which irritatingly conflates the two. Subject to ongoing support from our National Executive Committee, Napo has been involved in developing the Institute with Unison, the Probation Association and the Probation Chiefs Association. It has the involvement of academics with a strong commitment to Probation. Look out for the next edition of Napo News. </span><br /><br />The CRCs will be hotbeds of creativity and innovation<br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Seriously? The splitting of the service is creating a mushrooming bureaucracy that will eat into the budgets of the CRC and NPS. Medium risk cases often dip in and out of high risk situations and in reality will sit in between the two new organisations. At the moment you can manage those situations without the case being a fully blown high risk one. It’s fairly normal practice. After the split, you will have to fill out a lengthy referral form, get your line manager to countersign it, hand it over to your colleague in the NPS, they review it, get their line manager to sign it and then they might advise you do an RMP within 15 days or offer a new appointment. This is absurd and we calculate it will take about 3 hours of form filling- more so if the clients, practitioners, administrators and managers are locked in an endless cycle of referral and re-referral. When challenged, the Minister was visibly spooked by it and the director of one of the prime bidders we spoke to turned grey.</span><br /><br />You’re safe in the NPS<br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">The Minister has described the NPS as having the “top offender managers”. Aside from the shocking crassness of this statement the intent is clear: to divide and rule the staff. If we let this happen then we let each other down. The NPS looks like no walk in the park. The amount of pre-court administrative work is bizarre as the allocation tool to assign cases to NPS or CRC will take 45 mins alone. Professional freedoms don’t really exist in the Civil Service in the way they do in the current Probation Service. We ask constantly about conflicts of interest but the MoJ simply glazes over. It is difficult to imagine a practitioner acting on behalf of the Secretary of State.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">The MoJ is putting a tremendous amount of effort into pretending that everything is going swimmingly. It isn’t. Of course, while we will always do the best for our clients we don’t have to accept what’s happening. Keep raising issues where they occur and make sure you use formal processes if they apply to you. We do not accept the staff split and we are continuing to pressure the government to have a proper pilot of the new structure within the public sector. If that means that they can’t flog it off then so be it. The politically motivated timetable for privatisation is a disgrace and, for public safety and the decent treatment of staff and clients, it can and should be slowed down. Check out Ian’s blog on the Napo website and the Campaign Bulletins for more information and how you can contribute to the campaign.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Best wishes and don’t lose hope,</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Tom</span></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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<li>The MOJ devised the criteria by which your assignment was determined. LPT only adapted it in certain cases to meet local circumstances e.g. where there were roles that did not fit into the MOJ’s blueprint.</li>
<li>Assignments have been done on an “objective” basis. Beware of thinking that they have been done on the basis of an assessment of the work you have done over the course of your career.</li>
<li>The MOJ previously claimed that the NPS would be staffed by “top” offender managers. I wrote and told them how disrespectful this was.</li>
<li>Beware of thinking that the NPS is “better” (whatever that means) than the CRC. There are pros and cons to both organisations. An assignment to the NPS is not a “golden ticket”.</li>
<li>CRC’s will stay in public ownership until they are sold. See below for what you can do to try and ensure that never happens. I also advise you to look at the list of potential bidders now that SERCO and G4S are out of the bidding. It does not look to me like there are that many buyers interested in London. That is a good thing.</li>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There is still time. <br /><br />I have only just done mine and I attach it for your information and (hopefully) inspiration. <br /><br />For those of you who wonder what is the point of registering a grievance here is the answer: </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Writer, researcher and expert in criminology, <a href="http://www.russellwebster.com/how-many-people-will-be-in-prison-in-2019/">Russell Webster</a>, writes of how the impact of Transforming Rehabilitation could have a profound impact on the prison population.<br /><br />He says, <i>"Many expert witnesses who contributed to the recent House of Commons Justice Select Committee report expressed their concerns that TR would increase prison numbers through two main causes:<br /><br />Firstly, magistrates would be reassured that all short-term prisoners would now receive supervision and support on release and would therefore make more custodial sentences as a way of both imposing punishment and affording the opportunity for rehabilitation. <br /><br />Secondly, a proportion of those short-term prisoners receiving new mandatory supervision would not comply with their requirements and would therefore be recalled to prison.<br /><br />Of course, the purpose of TR is to reduce reoffending and the MoJ is confident that the new probation system will have a substantial impact on reducing reoffending in the medium to long-term."</i><br /><br />But there are there are still concerns about the impact the Governments plans to dismantle Probation could have on our prison populations. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Looked at how the Prisons in the USA had a huge proportion of non violent offenders serving sentences, or waiting more over six month just for their trials. Also there were high risk violent criminals who were in the community, who should have been in custody.<br /><br />While the public and sentencers agreed that prison should be a place for violent and dangerous criminals. <br /><br />She describes how a gut reaction and intuition is not enough in dealing with offenders and that it should be evidence based. <br /><br />So she organised a team to design a Risk Assessment Tool which was used in a high crime area, which had dramatic results in reducing crime, protecting the public and saving money from the public purse, by putting violent offenders in prison, and dealing with non violent ones in the community. <br /><br />Eventually this Risk Assessment tool was rolled out with in the State, and there is now work going on to move it nationwide so that police, courts, etc can use it. Anne Milgram also points out that the risk Assessment tool does not do away with intuition in dealing with people who have offended, but rather compliments it. <br /><br />There are many case in the UK where non-violent criminal are put into prison at huge cost to the public, when in my opinion there could be more community sentences that involve people who have offended paying back the community in some way, rather than the extremely high cost of keeping them in prison. </span><br />
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It no longer contains the Staff Assignment process which was imposed last November. The dates in the Agreement are having to be amended to reflect the move back from April 1st to June 1st.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">2. Future Negotiating & Consultation Structures:<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">As Trusts disappear, so the Employers side of the NNC will need to be re-constituted as a very minimum. NOMS have now sent the unions a new draft Constitution to consider – essentially just changing the Employers side to reflect the existence of the NPS and the CRCs. But consideration will also need to be given as to whether to have just one negotiating body for both the NPS and the CRCs, or one for each. There are pros and cons with either model. The relative numbers of seats on the union side may change if there were two bodies - depending on membership numbers - Napo/UNISON. Two separate negotiating bodies might seem more likely for two reasons.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Firstly, much of what will become established terms and conditions in the NPS will not be applicable to the CRCs (see below under Measures). There will need to be harmonisation of many policies with the Civil Service and it will not be possible or appropriate to apply these to the CRCs. There will also be other considerations such as the public sector pay policy which again will not be extended to cover CRCs.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Secondly, it may be dangerous to seek to tie CRCs in with negotiations over pay and conditions where their control was limited. A recent case (Alemo-Herron- v- Parkwood) in the Court of Justice of the EU highlighted the dangers of such a scenario. In that case a transfer to the private sector from a local authority had been conducted under TUPE Regs but the current situation in Probation is thought to be the same. In essence, the CRCs may call foul if they were tied to public sector negotiations in which they had limited say.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">However, it must be remembered that all staff will transfer over to the NPS and the CRCs on existing terms and conditions. So even if there were two negotiating bodies at a national level, the starting point for any negotiations would be what was carried over. At least initially, pay for example, would be as is.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A national negotiating body for the NPS would be just that. There will be no local or regional equivalent because it is a national service. In the case of the CRCs, whatever the national negotiating body looks like, there will also need to be JNCs established with each new employer – much as there are now with the Trusts. So in due course new JNC constitutions (probably modelled on what exists now) will need to be agreed and signed. But to do this will require two ‘sides’ , Employers and Staffside and as yet neither exists. On the employers side, there are only CEOs, not yet actually in post. On the union side, the existence of a recognisable Staffside depends on two factors. Firstly whether a CRC is being created out of one or more Trusts. If the former, then there will be the existing JNC Staffside within the Trust which may be a basis. But then, the second critical factor is the split between NPS and CRC, and where the existing union officials at local level end up – which side of the fence. So it's a bit premature to start establishing these negotiating (and consulting) bodies, though it seems prudent to set up some sort of shadow bodies before June 1st - which should be possible in a while.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">3.Recognition Agreements:<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Linked to the above, new union recognition agreements with the NPS nationally and with CRCs locally will need to be formalised. There is no evidence that the continued recognition of Napo, UNISON and SCOOP/GMB is in any way under threat but nevertheless, this formalisation process will be required. NOMS has provided a draft agreement for the NPS which the unions will need to study. As with the above, signing off these agreements for CRCs, is rather dependant on the two "Sides' of a CRC existing and so this piece of work is unlikely to be possible for some little while yet.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">4. Facility Time & also Transitional Arrangements:<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The unions have received a draft facilities agreement from NOMS. This will be a matter to be reviewed and revised both nationally and locally. Inevitably it will have to pay at least lip-service (and probably much more) to the Cabinet Office guidelines. But it seems likely that MoJ/NOMS will need to be rather more accommodating than the Guidelines strictly allow in order to achieve their own ends - i.e. the TR Programme. It is to be hoped that there will also be a transitional arrangement to be negotiated with NOMS, since it will be in everyones best interests to have a degree of continuity as Trusts and their staff are split up. It would also seem sensible that, at least whilst CRCs remain in the public sector, there will be some flexibility about member representation as between the NPS and CRCs. This may in part be dependant on the players involved - how amenable the newly appointed CEOs of CRCs and Deputies within NPS are. Any transitional arrangement will need to be negotiated nationally in the first instance - and this discussion hasn't started yet.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">5. Staff Commission:<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The National Framework on Staff Transfer and Protections commits all parties to "Establishing a Staff Commission to consider issues arising as a direct consequence of the transfer of staff from Probation Trusts to either a CRC or to the NPS" The unions have just received a draft paper from NOMS regarding this. It now has to be discussed and hopefully agreed by the end of March.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Salient features (subject to agreement) :<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Participation is voluntary and the Commission will hear appeals only where both parties locally are content to participate.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">It is an independent body established to provide a route for dispute resolution<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">It will not hear appeals against the Staff Assignment Process itself nor appeals against actual assignment<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">It may hear issues connected with redundancy, alleged detrimental changes, and discrimination to terms and conditions<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">One main reason for setting it up is to avoid issues arising from the transfer escalating to the level of an Employment Tribunal.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">It's likely to have three members - an independent chair, a member nominated by the TU Side and a member with an employer background nominated by NOMS.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The process is likely to follow ACAS guidelines.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">It will decide whether HR procedures were fairly carried through by the employer on the basis of agreed criteria<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Commission's decision will be binding on all parties and any outcomes would be expected to be implemented swiftly<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">6.Interchange Agreement:<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">As reported on January 13, another commitment achieved through the National Agreement on Staff Transfer is to the development of an Interchange Agreement. Splitting the workforce and having two entirely separate sets of employers can cause havoc in terms of training opportunities, professional development and career advancement. The split may also place staff in roles which are very stressful (probably in the NPS in particular) with increasingly limited opportunities for 'light relief'. These risks to the maintenance of a healthy, efficient and well-trained workforce are recognised by NOMS and this Interchange Agreement is their attempt at moderating these risks. Again, the unions have only just received the first draft to consider. Essentially this looks like a formal secondment system with associated protocols for operation. Further details will be reported in due course.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">7. Measures:<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Appendix A of the National Agreement on Staff Transfers and Protections is the starting point for considering what Measures will need to be consulted upon both nationally and locally. The introduction explains that consultation must take place (under COSOP). As the new organisations (NPS & CRCs) begin to take shape, these consultations will develop as both consultation and in some instances, negotiation are required with a view to establishing and/or harmonising terms and conditions and policies. Within the NPS there will need to be harmonisation of 35 sets of Trust policies and terms and conditions with those of the Civil Service. Where CRCs are being created out of two, three or four Trusts, there will need to be a harmonisation of two, three or four sets of local policies and terms and conditions. In CRCs being formed effectively out of only one Probation Trust, this exercise will be much more straightforward since no harmonisation exercise will be required.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This second stage of consultations and negotiations relies upon the necessary negotiating and consultation structures being in place (see above). So for CRCs, no actual negotiation on these matters will be possible before June 1st. Some consultation and preparatory work for negotiations may be possible within shadow structures.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">At national level, discussions regarding harmonisation with Civil Service policies and terms and conditions have already begun. NOMS have high hopes of having everything in place ready for 1st June where possible, with early negotiation/ratification wherever necessary soon after June 1st. These are likely to prove unrealistic expectations. Some Civil Service policies to which NOMS are seeking alignment are themselves out of date and in need of review/revision. This adds another dimension to the exercise and will involve the Probation unions in a further set of discussions with the other unions operating within NOMS, e.g. PCS and the POA.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">However, as policies are reviewed, they are likely to be forwarded to Trusts for information. Some of this work will be of benefit to union members. So, for example, with the Grievance Procedure. The Civil Service procedure in use already in NOMS is similar to those that most union members will recognise in Probation - except it is better in that unions have a seat on the Appeals Panels. Next to be considered is Discipline and Poor Performance (Capability). This is likely to be far more complex and time consuming. It is too early to say if this will be an improvement of general benefit to staff.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A paper entitled 'Being a Civil Servant' has been developed by NOMS with assistance from the PA and the unions. Not everything you need to know on joining the Civil Service but it should answer a lot of queries. It is currently being finalised by NOMS and should be available to those staff assigned to the NPS very soon.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">8. From now until May 31st:<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Now that the timetable has been adjusted back to June 1st for the creation of the NPS and the CRCs, more is likely to be done by existing employers (the Trusts). For example, the re-allocation of cases and, from April 1st, the allocation of new cases in a different way using the, as yet incomplete, Risk of Serious Recidivism (RSR) tool. It is possible also that some staff will need to be moved around to accommodate these changes. All of this is properly within the operational remit of employers but any such changes should be consulted upon in advance of implementation and they should also be risk assessed under Health & Safety legislation - Management of Health & Safety at Work Regs.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">9. Train the Trainers - or - Training Trusts in TR (TTT):<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A series of events is being held around the country for volunteers who will then return to Trusts to cascade this training down to all staff. This will be done through a series of training and briefing events. The aim is to prepare all staff for the new ways of working and the new organisations themselves. Amongst other things, this will include a whole raft of new operating procedures post-split - case-allocation, risk escalation, breach, parole reports, recall, revocation etc. These have been issued but bear all the hallmarks of hurried preparation. The starting point obviously isn't a good one i.e a large gap between two organisations, which everybody recognises will create additional problems. The new procedures, as solutions, are less than perfect. This is recognised by NOMS and they are subject to change - which is not entirely helpful when the local training is due to start quite shortly.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">10. A word on Continuity of Service:<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This concept is covered in Part A (A1) of the NNC Handbook.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Continuous Service is relevant in respect of annual leave, sickness payments, maternity leave and the calculation of entitlement to redundancy compensation and the calculation of notice periods.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The last paragraph in this section sums the position up as follows:<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"9.For the purpose of assessing continuing service, all previous continuous service with any probation board or predecessor committee or any employer where the probation board exercises its discretion shall be aggregated."<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This continuity carries across to new employment under COSOP.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The situation becomes a little complicated where staff subsequently change jobs.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The National Agreement on Staff Transfer and Protections protects this position for a period of seven years, post share sale, for anyone who moves jobs between CRCs or from the NPS to a CRC. It is protected for all staff moving between organisations, in either direction, up to the point of share sale.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The one exception to this protection is in respect of staff changing jobs and moving from a CRC to the NPS, post share sale. Here, protection cannot be extended because the Ministry of Justice is bound, as all Government Departments are, by additional requirements such as the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act which deals with the recruitment of Civil Servants (e.g. Recruitment Principles regarding Fair and Open Competition) and the MoJ's power are limited to those delegated to it under the Civil Service Management Code. Those powers do not extend to recognising new recruits' continuity of employment with previous, non-Civil Service Bodies. This is a disappointing fact of life but, on the other hand, some of the Civil Service policies, e.g. over maternity leave, are more generous and this will have a compensatory effect under such circumstances. The position in respect of redundancy is unclear since the NPS will need to develop a new policy for Probation staff joining the NPS from Trusts. This should afford the opportunity to establish an improved position.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Glossary:<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">COSOP - Cabinet Office Statement of Practice on Staff Transfers in the Public Sector</span></div></div><dl class="postprofile" id="profile2392" style="margin: 5px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; min-height: 80px; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); width: 202px; float: right; display: inline;"><dt style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.napo2.org.uk/phpBB3/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=112" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">Mactailgunner</font></a></dt><dd style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></dd><dd style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Posts:</span> 51</span></dd><dd style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Joined:</span> Tue Dec 21, 2010 11:20 am</span></dd></dl><div class="back2top" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; clear: both; height: 11px; text-align: right;"><a href="http://www.napo2.org.uk/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=457&sid=a24de72293c2274b8db3416bb1b849e6#wrap" class="top" title="Top" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-decoration: none; background-image: url(http://www.napo2.org.uk/phpBB3/styles/prosilver/imageset/icon_back_top.gif); width: 11px; height: 11px; display: block; float: right; overflow: hidden; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Top</span></font></a></div><span class="corners-bottom" style="margin: 0px -10px; padding: 0px; display: block; height: 5px; background-image: url(http://www.napo2.org.uk/phpBB3/styles/prosilver/theme/images/corners_left.png); clear: both; background-position: 0px 100%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7622845196220634568.post-15091098568846311372014-01-26T11:03:00.000-08:002014-01-26T17:04:12.307-08:00Privatisation: Social Contracts Not Tory Contracts<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was struck by the words of Elizabeth Warren because what's relevant for the other side of the pond, is surely relevant for the UK too. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our Government have been very forthcoming about it's plans to award millions of pounds of tax payers money to private companies. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">For me any awarded contracts need to be, in Elizabeth Warren's words, <i>"part of the underlying social contract".</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In other words, awarding contracts worth millions of pounds of tax payers money should have a level of social responsibility.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tax on Corporation earnings need to come back to the public purse and not stay in the pockets of the super rich.<br /><br />It seems that the UK is a paradise for Corporations that avoid paying tax though avoidance schemes, illegal tax dodging and mistaken underpayments, and the Government treats this with scant regard, rather than as a serious, preventable crime.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Public don't want the the people at the top getting huge benefits, at the expense of workers who don't get a living wage. <br /><br />The Public needs those contracts to deliver to as many people as possible and not to just the privileged few.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Happen the Government should ask themselves the question as to whether Corporations & Business' should be in business if they can't afford to pay at least a Living Wage? <br /><br />A living wage isn’t just something corporations owe their workers, it’s something corporations owe the nation, because if corporations aren't forced to pay a living wage, the taxpayers will only have to pick up the slack.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">With an estimated 13 million people in poverty in this nation, most of them working, this generation, and the next one (<i>"the next kid who will come along"</i>), need some social responsibility in the affairs of corporations and their government.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Mike Guilfoyle worked as a Probation Officer in London from 1990 to 2010 and is an Associate Member of Napo. He is a member of </span><a href="http://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/" style="color: #0061bf; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;">Centre for Crime and Justice Studies.</a><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> His monthly blog appears on CCJS's 'Works for Freedom'.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7622845196220634568.post-53434672196389081592014-01-25T13:33:00.000-08:002014-01-26T17:30:47.338-08:00A Timeline of Probation - 2014 Fight or Flight to Transforming Rehabilitation?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">As Jim Brown says in his <a href="http://probationmatters.blogspot.co.uk/">On Probation Blog</a> "A Celebration of Acheivement" it's quite a story, and 2014 is still waiting to be written - will it be Fight or Flight before Transforming Rehabilitation? </span></div>
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Once a public service or asset is privatised, we, the public, lose the ability to have a voice in decisions affecting that service or asset. </div>
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These services and structures are no longer controlled by a government accountable to the public, but instead beholden to companies who may have entirely different goals and priorities.</div>
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Privatisation means Probation Trusts are being sold off even though they have served this country well. Even though their record is first class in regards to public protection. Even though the experts have advised the Government against this.</div>
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Now the Daily Mirror reports, "Plans to sell off the Probation Service will put the public at “very high risk” of harm, a secret official report reveals.</div>
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The findings – leaked to the Sunday Mirror – say more criminals will reoffend if private firms and charities are put in charge of their rehabilitation.</div>
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The Probation Association report claims Justice Minister Chris Grayling’s privatisation, being rushed through before 2015, will result in “poorer outcomes for victims, communities and offenders” and an overall “higher risk to the public”.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /><br />The Government has recently spoken about Probation’s privatisation as being a Evolution, which has been worked on for a long time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">But make no mistake it’s a Revolution to British workers, who have give good service to this country, who are being undermined, or dispensed with.<br /><br />Jane Street and associate director in the NHS says that “Privatisation means the same staff do the same job for less money, through an expensive process. Wasteful and unnecessary”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">All this will simply allow for the Rich to get Richer and the Government to get more donations from grateful corporations who receive contracts!<br /><br />Some weeks ago Barrister Sam Parham said, "Probation Officers, Court Staff, Solicitors & Barristers must unite to stop Tories flogging off Criminal Justice - together we're strong"</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/stop-risking-public-safety?share_id=uTXYEVZyCZ&utm_campaign=twitter_link_action_box&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=share_petition" style="background-color: white; color: #75a5d1; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Please sign this New Petition. As the Barrister says lets Unite, be strong, and stop this Government from selling off any more Public Services.</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #616161; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.4;"><br /></span></div>
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