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Justice Secretary David Gauke has let failing private community rehabilitation companies off the hook - costing the taxpayer hundreds of millions
THE GOVERNMENT’s decision to bail out failing private probation companies again was branded “disgusting” and dismissed as “throwing good money after bad”, by unions, MPs and charities today.
Former justice secretary Chris Grayling’s shambolic Transforming Rehabilitation privatisation agenda set up 21 community rehabilitation companies (CRCs) to manage low-risk offenders, despite widespread opposition to the plans.
The contracts, signed in 2014, were due to run until 2022, but Mr Grayling’s successor David Gauke has announced that the government’s contracts with eight CRCs will end two years early.
YVETTE WILLIAMS and JOE DELANEY dissect the institutional dawdling that rubbed salt into the Grenfell open wounds prolonging the agony of survivors
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
