Fixing Public Services - Insights from Probation
Members of the Rehabilitating Probation project team have been engaged in ongoing dialogue with the Institute for Government (IfG), regarding their interest in public services generally, specific challenges facing criminal justice, and the lessons on insourcing that our study of probation unification can provide.
The Institute for Government recently published the report 'Fixing public services: Priorities for the new Labour government' which includes discussion of the challenges facing probation, within the broader public sector challenges that need to be tackled.
It is the IfG’s report, but we were pleased to be able to inform their thinking, drawing on our research with a wide range of practitioners and stakeholders in the probation space. Research from the project was also cited specifically when helping the report reflect on how repeated restructures and changes in practice have compromised the clairty of purpose and identity of the probation service.