Tag: Probation

At an upcoming Insights event, Sarah McKnight, Deputy Director for Employment, Skills and Education in HMPPS and Marie-Elise Howells, Deputy Director for​ Volunteering and​ Tackling Loneliness at the Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS),​ will ​talk us through why it is very important that we consider how loneliness and its negative effects may be exacerbated for people serving time in prison or on community sentences.

Mike Wheatley, Head of Drug and Alcohol Group in HMPPS, reflects on our hugely successful, interesting and informative event on 5th March.  

Robin Moore, Head of Research at HM Inspectorate of Probation talks us through how the inspectorate supports use of evidence and research and offers some top tips.

Helen Wakeling, from HMPPS Evidence Based Practice Team talks us through developing a measure for perceptions of Procedural Justice in Probation.

In this Insights guest blog, Tammie Burroughs informs us how professional curiosity can be used practically and effectively to enhance case management.

Vikki Ryan, Young Adults, National Prison Lead and Jane Browne, Head of Youths & Young Adults, National Probation Lead, explain the work that has been progressed to improve how young adults transition between youth and adult custody, youth custody to the probation service and between youth justice and probation. This blog was originally published to support HMPPS Young Adult Awareness Week in February 2022 has been updated to signpost to the published policies.