Last year 8,600 probation staff were outsourced as part of the privatisation of more than half of the probation service in England and Wales.
In 2014, seven-year-long contracts for rehabilitation services worth £3.7bn were awarded to companies such as Staffline, Sodexo and MTCnovo to supervise low and medium-risk offenders. Those who are deemed high-risk are still supervised by the National Probation Service.
If you work in probation services we’d like to hear from you. What do you think of their current state, and how have you been affected?
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