Clinks Report | Under represented, Under pressure, Under resourced

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We have published the third and final trackTR report into the voluntary sector's role in Transforming Rehabilitation, Under represented, Under pressure, Under resourced.

The report contains 11 practical recommendations we believe can make a difference, and help us to understand what the next generation of probation services could look like.

Since 2015, Clinks has led the tracktr partnership which has been researching the voluntary sector’s experience of the changes to probation services brought about by the Transforming Rehabilitation reforms. We have assessed the impact this has had on organisations, the services they deliver, and the people they support.

Our third report confirms that charities are underrepresented in the government’s £900m Transforming Rehabilitation programme.
“We invested huge amounts of time engaging with TR over two years but, in spite of being told we would be contracted, eventually were not.” - Survey respondent

The voluntary sector’s services are under pressure and under resourced, and charitable funds are being used to deliver the quality of services we want and need from our probation services.
“We are being asked to deliver more hours with a skeleton staffing. We are now covering four counties with two staff working four days per week, trying cover seven community locations and four prisons. This is simply not possible.” - Survey respondent

The majority of the 132 voluntary organisations we heard from believe that their service users are suffering as a result.
“…we have lost the quality resettlement work that was previously being carried out. The approach is not individual focused but process focused. It is admin heavy which prevents face-to-face contact.” - Survey respondent

Read our recommendations and download a copy of the full report here

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