Committees

The future of the Probation Service

Inquiry

Probation services have gone through substantial change in the past five years.

After the financial failure and withdrawal of several CRC providers, the MoJ decided to end CRC contracts 14 months early (during this year) and to return to having a single national probation service for all offenders, but with some services still contracted out to private, voluntary or statutory providers.

On 11 June 2020, The Lord Chancellor announced that the competitive process for Probation Delivery Partner contracts would be ended, and instead these elements of probation delivery would be brought back under the control of the NPS. The new model of probation is due to go live in June 2021.

The Committee’s inquiry examines the proposed model for the new probation service and seek views on how well the proposed model addresses the problems identified in the past.

Additionally, the Committee seeks to understand the effect Covid-19 has had on the delivery of probation services and what the potential impact may be going forward into the next phase of the Probation Reform Programme.

Read the terms of reference to find out more about the inquiry.

 

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Past events

Tuesday 8 December 2020
1:45pm Private
2:30pm Public
The future of the Probation Service - Oral evidence 8 December 2020
2:30pm
  • Eden-Rose, Revolving Doors
  • Liam, Revolving Doors
  • Nadia, Revolving Doors
  • Phil, Revolving Doors
  • Andy Williams (Head of Involvement at Revolving Doors)
3:30pm
  • Lucy Frazer QC MP (Minister of State at Ministry of Justice)
  • Amy Rees (Director General of Probation and Wales at HM Prison and Probation Service)
  • Jim Barton (Executive Director, Probation Reform Programme at HM Prison and Probation Service)
Room 6, Palace of Westminster
Tuesday 13 October 2020
1:45pm Private
2:30pm Public
The future of the Probation Service - Oral evidence 13 October 2020
2:30pm
  • Laura Seebohm (Executive Director, External Affairs at Changing Lives)
  • Jessica Mullen (Director of Influence and Communications at Clinks)
  • Mat Ilic (Chief Development Officer at Catch22)
3:30pm
  • David Lloyd (Police and Crime Commissioner for Hertfordshire at Association of Police and Crime Commissioners)
3:50pm
  • Ian Lawrence (General Secretary at Napo)
  • Katie Lomas (National Chair at Napo)
  • Ben Priestley (National Officer for Probation at UNISON)
Room 6, Palace of Westminster
Tuesday 22 September 2020
1:45pm Private
2:30pm Public
The future of the Probation Service - Oral evidence 22 September 2020
2:30pm
  • Justin Russell (HM Chief Inspector of Probation at HM Inspectorate of Probation)
3:30pm
  • Suki Binning (Chief Executive Officer at Kent, Surrey and Sussex Community Rehabilitation Company)
  • David Hood (Vice President of International Business at MTC)
  • Adam Hart (Chief Executive Officer at The Reducing Reoffending Partnership)
  • Trevor Shortt (Director of Operations - Community at Sodexo)
Room 5, Palace of Westminster

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