The government has announced that another of its flagship policies on outsourcing have come unstuck. Privatising the probation service always looked like a privatisation too far. And now even the Conservative Government agrees.
This is a report from The Independent:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/probation-privatisation-failure-transforming-rehabilitation-enforcement-poor-crcs-monitoring-nps-a8201536.html
And from the Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jul/27/private-probation-companies-contracts-ended-early-justice”>Private probation companies to have contracts ended early