How can we better understand the future demand and needs of our workforce – including learning and development needs – to ensure effective workload management, particularly in relation to serious and high-risk cases?

Background

We want to build confidence and trust in a system that upholds public protection and creates the conditions for individual rehabilitation. We want to better support the probation service in using evidence-based decision-making.

Next steps

We can be contacted at the following email address: evidence_partnerships@justice.gov.uk.

Source

This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:

Areas of research interest

Related UKRI funded projects

  • Devolving Probation Services: An ethnographic study of the implementation of the Transforming Rehabilitation agenda

    The Probation Service in England & Wales is a public body which plays a key role in the criminal justice system. The Service is more than 100 years old and is responsible for supervising offenders subject to communit...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: Liverpool John Moores University

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project examines the implementation of the Transforming Rehabilitation agenda and the process of outsourcing probation services, which is directly related to understanding the future demand and needs of the workforce.

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