Following each inspection of a Youth Justice Service (YJS), Probation Delivery Unit (PDU) or region, we publish a report, making sure all our findings are available to the public. Our reports are available here.
For all our reports we ensure the service we inspected get a chance to check the report for any factual inaccuracies. Along with minsters and the press, the inspected service will also see an embargoed copy of the report a short time before we publish, and we ensure stakeholders can access the report on the publication date.
The Probation Service is required to liaise with HM Prisons and Probation Service after every PDU or regional report is published, to agree a draft action plan which will address our recommendations in the report.
For Youth Justice Services, their action plan will be overseen and followed by us.
Any action plans will be used as evidence for the next inspection of that service.
For thematic reports, HM Prisons and Probation Service draft an action plan against our recommendations. We log and track the progress made and, in some cases, may choose to reinspect a particular thematic topic later – being clear about whether progress has been made on our recommendations.