Transforming Rehabilitation: Another Example of English 'Exceptionalism' or a Blueprint for the Rest of Europe?'

Jill Annison, Lol Burke*, Paul Senior

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Abstract

The Transforming Rehabilitation agenda represents a radical departure in the way that rehabilitative services are delivered in England and Wales. Under the proposed changes, the existing Probation Trusts will be replaced by a significantly smaller National Probation Service dealing with the rump of high-risk public protection cases. The supervision and delivery of services to those offenders assessed as low and medium risk will be contracted to a range of providers on a payment by results basis. In this introduction to the special edition of the European Journal of Probation, the authors trace the policy developments that have extended the scope of the privatisation of state services in England and Wales. They then consider the values underpinning these developments and the potential impact on probation work before finally exploring the ways in which the current debate over the future of the probation service in England and Wales are being constructed and responses to this crisis shaped. This is organised into four interrelated arguments – the evidence response; the implementation response; the media response and the reclaim response.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)6-23
Number of pages0
JournalEuropean Journal of Probation
Volume6
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 11 Apr 2014

Keywords

  • Transforming Rehabilitation
  • Probation
  • Probation privatisation

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