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Probation


The probation service is undergoing change. There are plans to abolish and replace Probation boards with business-style trusts, which will be less accountable to the public. Services will then be commissioned by Regional Offender Mangers from the public, private and voluntary sectors. These changes threaten services which will be subject to market testing and ultimately lead to the privatisation of probation services.

UNISON is concerned about the impact of reform on service quality, safety and the workforce. The government's belief in the ability of the market to deliver complex probation services has not been proven.

For more information:
Link to a web page on this site Probation
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• The UNISON contact for the Positively Public campaign is Margie Jaffe.
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Recent documents
The role of private finance in public investment
The report shows that PFI is not value for money, despite the coalition government backing this form of investment. It warns that the cost of PFI has risen astronomically following the financial crisis and the gap between the rate at which the government and the private sector can borrow has widened dramatically.
Link to a PDF document on this site The role of private finance in public investment
UNISON Response to Lord's Inquiry on PFI
UNISON's submission to the House of Lord's Inquiry into PFI highlights our concerns around the methodology of PFI, risk transfer, high costs, value for money and workforce issues.
Link to a PDF document on this siteUNISON Response to the Select Committee on Economic Affairs - House of Lords
Reclaiming the Initiative - putting the public back into PFI
The report catalogues how ever-growing billions of public money has become locked into financing massively expensive PFI schemes. The Government has committed taxpayers, for a generation to come, to a bill of more than £217bn worth of repayments between now and 2033/34 on just  £64bn of PFI projects. PFI’s reliance on the private sector was supposed to give public building programmes more rigour and strength but, as the union’s latest report - “Putting the Public Back into PFI” – shows, in reality it has exposed them to greater hazards and weaknesses. Public projects have been tainted by private failure
Link to a PDF document on this siteAcrobat PDF version
Transforming Community Services
This factsheet outlines the process for implementing the Transforming Community Services programme for primary care trusts.
Link to a PDF document on this siteTransforming community services factsheet

 
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