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Effective practice guide library

About our guides

Using examples of effective practice from within our core adult and youth inspections and the thematic programme, we have developed a range of effective practice guides and resources.

These materials are aimed at a range of audiences; they are intended to support practitioners, middle managers and strategic leaders to reflect on their own experiences and consider how they may apply the key learning points in their own contexts.

If you are a probation or youth justice practitioner, we would like to hear what you think of these materials, including any suggested improvements. Please send your ideas to Helen.Amor@hmiprobation.gov.uk (E-mail address).

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Effective practice guide – Recruitment, Training and Retention

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Thematic
In this guide, we present examples of effective practice that supported successful recruitment, ensured continuous professional development opportunities for staff and promoted positive retention in teams. 

Effective Practice – Unpaid Work

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This effective practice guide is based on examples observed while undertaking ‘A thematic inspection on the delivery of unpaid work’.

Effective Practice Spotlight: The Probation Service – Yorkshire and the Humber Region

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Regional spotlight
This Regional Effective Practice Spotlight highlights some of the 140 examples of strong probation practice from across Yorkshire and the Humber, including multi-agency work, resettlement, and interventions.

Effective practice – working with young adults

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Throughout the guide, we explore what effective practice looks like against our standards. It is designed to help commissioners and providers improve their work with young adults in the criminal justice system who are serving community and custodial sentences.

Effective Practice – Developing operational structures and the Senior Probation Officer role

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In this guide, we examine: the key principles of management oversight, operational delivery in sentence management, and look at the senior probation officer (SPO) role in great detail as it is so central to effective management oversight.

Effective Practice Guide: Children subject to or at risk of remand in youth detention accommodation

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This guide has been designed to explore effective and developing practice in relation to youth remand for both youth justice services and their operational and strategic partners.

Effective Practice, Race equality in probation follow-up – A work in progress

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This guide has been designed to help managers and practitioners reflect on how best to improve the experience of Black, Asian, and ethnic minority staff and people on probation.

Effective Practice – Working with Women

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This guide highlights where we have seen our standards delivered well for women managed by the Probation Service.

Working with domestic abuse (adult services) July 2023

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This guide is based on information sourced while undertaking the domestic abuse thematic inspection of probation work.

Effective Practice Guide: Offender Management in Custody, post-release (adult services)

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Based on effective practice identified during our thematic review of the Offender Management in Custody model.