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JUSTICE Secretary Chris Grayling pushed on with probation privatisation yesterday despite warnings that the service has descended into “utter chaos” because of the rush for a sell-off.
Cost-cutting French multinational Sodexo, British global outsourcers Interserve and scandal-dogged US firm Management & Training Corporation are being lined up for the lion’s share of the 21 regional “community rehabilitation companies” (CRCs) that will deal with low-to-medium-risk offenders.
Probation workers union Napo general secretary Ian Lawrence said Mr Grayling’s decision to press on with privatisation despite growing evidence that the system was buckling under the weight of reorganisation was “purely ideological.”
Mr Lawrence said: “We have mounting evidence that neither the CRCs or the National Probation Service are stable at the moment and this is having a direct impact on the supervision of offenders and public safety.
“The fact so few organisations have won contracts also suggests that this has been a flawed competition with little or no real interest from providers in taking these contracts on.”
