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Effective practice guide library

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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: Electronic monitoring delivered well

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This guide provides an overview of the sentence and requirement types that can have electronic monitoring applied, with details of which technology can be used.

Effective practice guide: Black and mixed heritage boys in the youth justice system

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The guide explains why it is important to consider ethnicity in practice. We provide an overview of our standards and expectations in this area around leadership and case supervision.

Effective practice guide: substance misuse

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Thematic

Towards effective practice with black, Asian and minority ethnic people on probation

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Thematic
This is a recording of an online event exploring effective practice identified during our thematic inspection, Race equality in probation: the experiences of black, Asian and minority ethnic probation service users and staff.

Effective practice guide: Adult effective case supervision

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Other guides
This guide provides an overview of case supervision in context, what effective supervision looks like and the research which underpins this.

Effective practice guide: Serious Further Offence reviews

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This guide provides an introduction to SFOs, a summary of requirements for effective reviews and organisational learning from the thematic, characteristics of good-quality SFO reviews, SFO reviewing system improvement example from Wales, practice improvement example from London exploring how they developed a learning culture and an effective approach to learning and staff engagement from the Midlands is discussed.

Effective practice guide: Integrated Offender Management

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Based on effective practice identified during the joint inspection of the Integrated Offender Management Approach (2020).