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Probation reform failures exposed
No action taken by private probation firm after 15,000 appointments missed
MINISTERS must halt handouts to private probation firms until they can prove they are “fit for purpose,” Labour demanded last night after a damning TV investigation exposed a catalogue of failures in the service.
The BBC’s flagship Panorama programme uncovered how one contractor had failed to take action over 15,000 appointments missed by convicts.
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