Member

New clause 4, which is fully supported by Napo, would require the inspectorate’s approval to be provided before extra pressure is placed on our overstretched Probation Service by provisions in the Bill. It would also empower the inspectorate to trigger special measures for probation delivery units or entire regions, and a prioritisation framework that would give probation officers more flexibility to focus on high-risk cases and drop the non-essential and lower-priority tasks that take up so much of their time.