Justice Committee Probation Reform Report

EDM number 1449 in 2017-19, proposed by Liz Saville Roberts on 25/06/2018.
Categorised under the topics of Prisons and Alternatives to prison.

That this House welcomes the recent Justice Committee report on the Transforming Rehabilitation reforms; notes the Committee remains unconvinced that these reforms can ever deliver an effective or viable probation service; expresses concern that staff morale is at an all-time low, according to the report, with the Committee chair describing the probation system as a mess; believes that part-privatising the award-winning probation service in 2015, with a focus on payment by results, was a risky and expensive mistake; and calls on the Government to consult with staff unions including Napo and Unison on how to bring the whole probation service back into the public sector.

This motion has been signed by a total of 45 MPs.