Transforming Rehabilitation

Transforming Rehabilitation (TR) was the name given to a white paper issued by the UK Ministry of Justice in May 2013, and to a programme of work from 2013 to 2016 to enact the strategy outlined in the paper. TR is concerned with the supervision and rehabilitation of offenders in England and Wales.[1][2]

Background

During the early years of the United Kingdom coalition government (2010–2015), the supervision of rehabilitation of offenders in England and Wales was overseen by the National Offender Management Service with operational responsibilities divided between Her Majesty's Prison Service and private-sector prisons (for offenders in custody), and 35 Probation Trusts responsible for offenders in the community serving community orders or released on licence.

Transforming Rehabilitation

Transforming Rehabilitation was the then Secretary of State for Justice, Chris Grayling's plan for the reform of the provision of services for offenders in the community, published in 2013 with a view to necessary legislation and reorganisation being put in place before the 2015 elections marking the end of the 2010-2015 parliament.

The plans laid in TR respond to an observation that despite increases in spending on offender rehabilitation, reoffending rates were not falling.[1]

Major aspects of the transformation include:[1][2]

NAO report

In April 2016, the National Audit Office, an independent body which scrutinises public spending, issued a report into the Transforming Rehabilitation process to date.[4] The report was described as savaging the government's privataisation of probation services, asserting that the government lacks data on which to judge the performance of new private sector providers, and raising concerns that CRCs may be putting profit above public safety by failing to engage with classes of offenders, and may be manipulating or withholding data.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Transforming Rehabilitation: A Strategy for Reform" (PDF). Secretary of State for Justice. May 2013. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
  2. ""Offender Rehabilitation Act 2014"". UK Parliament. 13 March 2014. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
  3. Transforming Rehabilitation (Report). National Audit Office. 28 April 2016.
  4. Fenton, Siobham (3 May 2016). "Watchdog savages Government's 'disastrous' privatisation of probation services". The Independent. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
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