0/ Thread:🧵 Tomorrow - 26th June is the day in which probation services in England and Wales will re-unified after the split into public and private sector delivery under Transforming Rehabilitation reforms #probation #TransformingRehabilitation
1/ @ProbationJournal has extensively covered these reforms from a range of perspectives, including critical analysis on the rationale for reform, the underpinning evidence and the impacts on service users, staff and partner agencies including the voluntary and community sector.
2/ We published a special issue in 2016 – Transforming Rehabilitation: Reflections two years on: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
3/ This included critiques about the impacts of ‘organizational bifurcation’ @stevejcollet @BurkeLol which the split NPS/CRC model entailed: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
4/ @Jane_Dominey cautioned about the impacts of fragmentation on service delivery, working relationships and experiences of supervision: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
5/While @chriskay1 explored the impacts of risk-based allocation on practitioners perspectives on their work: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
6/The division of service users into different organisations based on assessments of risk, and the impact on staff was also explored by @jakephillips @chalen_westaby & Andrew Fowler: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
7/@ProbationLady critiqued the imposition of boundaries in the context of a parallel discourse on ‘agile working’: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
8/We published a special issue: Five Years of Transforming Rehabilitation: Markets, management and values, guest edited by @maryscorcoran: journals.sagepub.com/toc/prbb/66/1
9/ This included contributions from John Deering and @martina0074 on how the governance of probation had been ‘hollowed out’ in the years preceding TR: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
10/ Opening up rehabilitation to market forces in order to ‘stimulate innovation’ was one of the key underpinning rationales for probation privatisation. Kevin Albertson and Chris Fox @MMUPolicyEval pointed out flaws in the model: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
11/ Their critique chimed with a series of National Audit Office @NAOorguk reports which criticised an ill-conceived commercial approach: nao.org.uk/report/transfo…
12/ In an analysis of the policy context in which the reforms were progressed @HarryAnnison outlined the particular context of coalition government and the role of Chris Grayling in accelerating reforms: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
13/ It is worth repeating the critique made by @NAOorguk and others including @CommonsJustice and @HMIP that there had been insufficient piloting in advance of implementation.
14/Throughout the entire period of reforms staff and services were subject to significant upheavals, and overtime the impacts have been experienced across those working in NPS and CRCs.
15/Samantha Walker, Jill Annison and Sharon Beckett explored the double whammy of austerity and privatisation on working practices: journals.sagepub.com/toc/prbb/66/1
16/ While @m_millings @BurkeLol and Gwen Robinson documented the impacts on probation leaders in delivering the reforms: journals.sagepub.com/toc/prbb/66/1
17/The promise of opening up the market to a range of providers and to greater involvement of the voluntary sector in TR was short-lived as smaller charities and local providers were crowded out: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
18/ Through the Gate provision and the extension of post-sentence supervision to short-sentenced prisoners was another key pillar of TR reforms.
19/ @mattcracknell85 documented how the PSS requirements introduced under the Offender Rehabilitation Act 2014 extended the net of punishment, impacted on the prison population through recalls to prison: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
20/ @m_milings @StuTaylorLJMU @BurkeLol & Esther Ragonese documented the short fallings in Through the Gate provision: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
21/ Over recent years we have published lots of articles about practice developments including thoughtful contributions from practitioners in CRCs and NPS: journals.sagepub.com/loi/prbb?expan…
22/ We will be covering the next phase of reforms with interest and we will continue to publish excellent work as the journey progresses @SAGEcriminology @Napo_News @ProbInstitute @HMIProbation @hmpps @HMPPSCymru @CommonsJustice @russwebt @TheHowardLeague
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