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Project Article - Anchors Through Change: Exploring Identity Work in the Unified Probation Service for England & Wales

Our paper explores the impact(s) of organizational change on probation workers and the identity work that they engage in as they move through iterations of change.

Rehabilitating Probation IfG Event

IfG Event - What lessons can government learn from the insourcing of probation services? An expert panel explores the creation – and impact – of the Probation Service.

Project Article - Indifference, resistance, possibility: Probation staff perspectives on the introduction of professional registration

The Rehabilitating Probation Project team have written an article exploring staff perspectives on the introduction of Professional Registration

Project Article - A fork in the road: Probation unification in England and Wales two years on

In this paper, published in the Probation Journal, we report on frontline probation practitioners’ reflections, two years after unification, of living through a period of profound organisational change.

HM Inspectorate's National Inspection of Probation Consultation

The Rehabilitating Probation team's contribution to HM Inspectorates' Consultation on National Inspection

3 September 2024

Project Podcast - What is Probation For? Part 2

The project team have been hosting a series of workshops exploring the question - What is Probation For? In a podcast series recorded with the Prison Radio Association you can hear from some of those who took part.

Project Podcast - What is Probation For? Part 1

The project team have been hosting a series of workshops exploring the question - What is Probation For? We have also been recording a podcast series with the Prison Radio Association.

Can probation be rehabilitated?

An article based on Professor Gwen Robinson's Bill McWilliams memorial lecture that considered the recent past, present and potential future of the service through the lens of a central concept in probation work: namely, rehabilitation.

19 February 2024

Probation Leaders Event - February 2024

Rehabilitating Probation Project emerging findings featured at event for Probation Leaders

10 January 2024

Project Article - Whose confidence? Regional leaders’ perspectives on building confidence in a reconfigured probation service.

Our paper draws on interviews conducted with Regional Probation Directors (RPDs) in England and Wales to focus on the question of whose confidence matters and what are the challenges when building confidence from the perspective of those leaders.

Fixing Public Services - Insights from Probation

A recent Institute for Government Report helps highlight the challenges being faced by public services, especially those working in criminal justice.

Institute for Government Event

Rehabilitating Probation project to feature at IfG Event - What lessons can government learn from the insourcing of probation services?

1 November 2023

Project Article - Making Good?: A Study of How Senior Penal Policy Makers Narrate Policy Reversal

Our paper draws on interviews with senior national policy participants to provide a narrative reconstruction of the unification of the probation service in England and Wales

25 October 2023

Regional Directors of Probation Workshop - October 2023

The project research team hosted and delivered an input to a Regional Probation Director's Organisational Development Workshop in October 2023

Project Article - A necessary but painful journey: Experiences of unification in a probation service region

In this first paper, published in the Probation Journal, we report on frontline probation practitioners’ reflections, one year after unification, of living through a period of profound organisational change.

25th Annual Bill McWilliams Lecture with Professor Lol Burke

Researching Probation Unification

This brief article published in the most recent issue of Probation Quarterly presents an overview of some of the themes emerging from interviews with probation practitioners in the first year following unification of probation services.

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The role of stories in penal policy change

Bringing policy reform to fruition is an enterprise fraught with difficulty; penal policy is no different.

8 February 2023

Implementing, managing, and delivering Through the Gate Services for short-term prisoners

10 January 2023

A legitimate business? Representations of privatised probation

13 December 2022

Capturing Probation Leaders' experiences of delivering public sector reform

Drawing on tracked, longitudinal style interviews we explore the personal and professional challenges for probation leaders in having to make sense of and then implement a reform programme during a period of profound uncertainty.