While international attention focuses on ceasefire frameworks, Israel is openly advancing plans for a permanent expansion of its control over Gaza, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Predictably chaotic probation changes must be reversed
Ministers were warned about their disastrous reforms to the probation service but refuse to act to sort the mess out, writes IAN LAWRENCE
As Napo’s annual conference begins today, it seems timely to reflect on what has happened to a once award-winning public service in the last three years.
Transforming Rehabilitation, introduced by the then justice secretary Chris Grayling, was criticised by stakeholders from the day it was proposed as being an ill-conceived social experiment that would lead to public safety risks, a deterioration of quality and effectiveness, and a profit motive at odds with the service’s values.
Napo, one of the most critical voices at the time, predicted that the so-called reforms would result in chaos and poor standards both in service delivery and in the terms and conditions for staff.
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