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The Golden Age of Probation

Mission v Market

Edited by Roger Statham

With a Foreword by Alan Bennett

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The Golden Age of Probation

Mission v Market

Edited by Roger Statham

ISBN 978-1-909976-14-6 (Paperback)

ISBN 978-1-908162-81-6 (Epub ebook)

ISBN 978-1-908162-82-3 (Adobe ebook)

Copyright 2014 This work is the copyright of Roger Statham. All intellectual property and associated rights are hereby asserted and reserved by him in full compliance with UK, European and international law. No part of this book may be copied, reproduced, stored in any retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, including in hard copy or via the internet, without the prior written permission of the publishers to whom all such rights have been assigned. The Foreword is the copyright of Alan Bennett 2014.

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Contents

Acknowledgements

Sincere and grateful thanks to all those in these pages who have managed to contribute to the writing of this book. It is the very difference of style and approach by each of them that has helped create a real evocation of the golden age of probation, which I trust will be sensed by all those that read it. Thanks also to the many other colleagues in the Association of Retired Chief Officers and Inspectors of Probation who in different circumstances might have added richly to the text. Over time, and during a long probation career, there have been many who have provided support, advice, and inspiration; there are reflections of them all in these pages and I remain indebted to every one.

Thanks to the Probation Chiefs Association for their work on probations legacy which provided the impetus for this book; and to Bryan Gibson for his patient counsel, in the process of putting it all together the presentation of the book is a testimony to this.

Alan Bennetts support and contribution simply could not have been anticipated at the outset. His backing for public sector probation and his concerns about market forces are beautifully expressed. I would like to record my very grateful thanks for his help.

Finally, thanks also to Wendy for her readiness to proof read endlessly, and to all my family for their patience when the blue mist descends, and I am lost in distraction.

Roger Statham

August 2014

Foreword

Probation belongs at a local level and profit should not come into it. The satisfactions of the Probation Service are not financial ones and nor should they be; they are the rewards of dedication and service. But because such values cannot be quantified this government prefers to believe they are out-of-date, and even that they do not exist. Profit is thought to be the only trustworthy motive and thus that probation can be farmed out to whatever agency thinks it can make it pay.

The remedying of misfortune, which is what probation is about has no more to do with profit than the remedying of disease.

AlanBennett

The Editor and Contributors

After being a probation officer in Stoke-on-Trent in 1968, Roger Statham rose through the ranks to become chief probation officer for Teesside (formerly Cleveland). He has held various positions including chair of the Adventure Playgrounds Association in Stoke; the Local Review Committee at HM Prison Durham; the North-East Prison After-Care Society (NEPACS); the Social Policy Committee of the Association of Chief Officers of Probation and Continuing Care Review Panels of the National Health Service in Yorkshire. He was a member of the Parole Board from 1996 to 2000 and has written extensively about probation including as co-author of the two works mentioned at the end of his own story in Chapter 18. He is Vice-President of NEPACS and joint secretary of the Association of Retired Chief Officers and Inspectors of Probation. This book contains contributions by 20 people with similar or associated backgrounds whose brief descriptions follow their own contributions.

The Author of the Foreword

Alan Bennett is one of the UKs leading literary figures and after a lifetime of writing and performing has established himself as a national treasure. His acute insights into people and their interactions have provided a lasting legacy and he remains a trenchant social commentator. His mistrust of the market and belief in the value of public services provide a clarion call for all those who continue to believe that there is still such a thing as society.

Dedication

For Wendy, Jonathan, Sian, Katy, Ben, Rachel, Dom, Lucy, Alice and William.

To all probation staff past and present, who contributed to a public service often referred to as the jewel of the Criminal Justice System.

Introduction:

Probation The Beginning or End?

Roger Statham

By the end of 2013 it was clear that, after decades of unpopularity, political forces were finally ensuring the end of the Probation Service in England and Wales. The notion of probation and the values it stood for seemed to resonate no longer with government and the public at large. Some of those, perhaps more appreciative of the wider significance that probation played in the dynamics of criminal justice, have fought a small rearguard action but to no avail. In 2014 as the new structure for probation emerges from the fettered imaginations of Ministry of Justice exercises, the political sop of retaining some kind of national probation service has a hollow ring given the parameters in which it is likely to operate. Sadly there does seem to be a lack of vision within Government and changes to probation do seem to be somewhat ad hoc and suggest problems lie ahead.

We should remember that the changes made by New Labour in 2001 when probation was effectively nationalised had already deprived it of an effective voice and shifted local accountability to national. It is axiomatic that both criminal and social justice essentially each have a local dimension; communities have different dynamics and in criminal justice terms sentencers do have to respond to local concerns. The ability of probation to be responsive in this way is slowly being lost, amid all the changes, and with it an important sphere of influence in the process of sentencing. It can only be hoped that the new Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) can forge links with community organizations in order to provide the potential for local cohesion and long-term rehabilitation and reintegration that can help close the growing social divide in our modern world.

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