Excessive probation workloads put public at risk in England and Wales, union warns
Overview
Exclusive: Napo declares no confidence in probation service managers and threatens industrial action
The public is “at direct risk” from unsupervised ex-offenders because probation officers in England and Wales are being asked to cope with excessive workloads, a union has said.
Details
As ministers prepare to release and monitor tens of thousands more prisoners this autumn, Napo’s executive has declared for the first time that it has no confidence in managers at the probation service.
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Originally published at www.theguardian.com.