Chris Grayling’s failed reforms were rushed out by the ministry causing “sigificant risk and cost to the taxpayer” ADRIAN DENNIS/GETTY IMAGESThe government’s partial privatisation of the probation service has failed to meet targets to cut reoffending, a damning spending watchdog report published today finds. Under a £3.7 billion reform intended to cut reoffending, 21 community rehabilitation companies (CRCs) were created to monitor low and medium-risk offenders, with the state-run National Probation Service overseeing high-risk criminals. Only six of those CRCs have achieved significant reductions in the number of reoffenders. The average number of offences committed per reoffender has risen in 19 of them. A highly critical National Audit Office report says that the…

Source: The Times March 01, 2019 00:45 UTC