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Plymouth Youth Justice Service made ‘great strides’ to achieve ‘Good’ rating
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Plymouth Youth Justice Service (YJS) has received an overall rating of ‘Good’ following an inspection by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Probation.
Gwent Probation Delivery Unit ‘Requires improvement’
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Gwent Probation Delivery Unit (PDU) has received an overall rating of ‘Requires improvement’ following an inspection by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Probation.
Swansea Neath Port Talbot Probation Delivery Unit rated ‘Inadequate’
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Swansea Neath Port Talbot Probation Delivery Unit (PDU) has received an overall rating of ‘Inadequate’ following an inspection by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Probation.
Black and mixed heritage boys receiving poor support from youth offending services
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Inspectors have found “significant deficits” in the quality of work conducted by youth offending services and partner agencies with black and mixed heritage boys.
Probation services – ‘disappointing’ work with drug users ‘lacks focus and funding’
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Probation services are responding poorly to drugs misuse and addiction cases, according to inspectors.
Probation reforms broadly on track but some concerns persist around staffing and services
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Plans to unite probation services and return them to the public sector are progressing well but some gaps remain, according to inspectors.
High caseloads/workloads jeopardising the quality of probation delivery and practitioners’ wellbeing
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HM Inspectorate of Probation has published new research examining how well caseloads and workloads in probation have been managed in recent years, and the impact that large caseloads can have on the quality of supervision.
Probation service must ‘reset and raise’ standard of work with ethnic minority service users and staff urgently
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Probation services must show greater consideration and confidence in their work with black, Asian and minority ethnic service users and staff, according to a new report.
Probation and youth offending services – strong early response to COVID-19, but more work needed to tackle longer-term challenges
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Probation and youth offending services have responded well to the COVID-19 pandemic but attention must now turn to tackling backlogs and longer-term problems, according to inspectors.