Our Research & Analysis Bulletins are aimed at all those with an interest in the quality of probation and youth justice services, presenting key findings to assist with informed debate and promote excellence in probation and youth justice services.
The bulletins present findings from analysis of our inspection data and from new primary research projects.
This research seeks the views and experiences of professionals to investigate how youth justice services and probation services work together to provide services to young people that encompass the six key principles of Transitional Safeguarding.
The focus in this bulletin is upon the extent to which the Probation Service have been able to provide courts with advice which is sufficiently analytical, personalised to the individual, and supports the court’s decision making.
The focus in this bulletin is to provide evidence about care-experienced children’s involvement with YJSs from the perspectives of both professionals and children.
The focus in this bulletin is upon the probation interventions landscape, providing an overview of how well the post-unification landscape is operating for those on the frontline, and considering good practices and areas for improvement.
The focus in this bulletin is the need for operational middle managers in probation and youth justice services – the frontline leaders – to be able to focus upon leading, inspiring, and developing their teams to bring out the best in practitioners, in turn supporting the aims of reducing reoffending and protecting the public.
This bulletin examines the relationships between inspectors’ judgements regarding the quality of delivery and later output/outcome measures in the form of sentence completion and proven reoffending.
This bulletin examines the relationships between inspectors’ judgements regarding the quality of delivery and their judgements regarding early outcomes.
Three complementary bulletins which utilise our inspection datasets and examine the relationships between inspectors’ judgements regarding the quality of differing aspects of probation supervision and later output/outcome measures.
