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Ensuring Quality in the Supervision of Offenders in the Community
  
This is a series of seminars run in partnership by DeMontfort University, KWP, Midlands Consortium and Birmingham University and attended by practitioners and managers from probation and youth justice. The aim of the series is to promote thinking and debate about the professional task of supervising offenders and of managing those people who supervise offenders.
Next seminar
25 June 2010 - details soon.
Past seminars
Thinking in Practice Seminar 2: More Than Just Compliance
December 15 2009
The seminar was held at DeMontfort University and it was a great success. It was introduced by Heather Munro Chief Officer of Leicestershire & Rutland Probation Trust.
Dr Gwen Robinson from Sheffield University talked about ‘Dimension and Dynamics of Compliance within Community Supervision‘.
Professor Fergus McNeill of Glasgow School of Social Work talked about ‘Probation, Desistance and What Works’.
Download presentations and papers (all PDFs)
In the afternoon workshops discussed Practice and management issues. This was followed by a panel plenary where Gwen and Fergus were joined by Sue Rex from NOMS. The workshops and the plenary will be written up and added to the website as soon as possible.
Thinking in Practice Seminar 1: Engaging with risk: limitations and opportunities of risk assessment tools
May 11 2009
Speakers:
Professor Hazel Kemshall, DeMontfort University
Dr Kerry Baker, University of Oxford
Jason Wood De Montfort University
Paul Mason Senior Consultant GHK Consulting Limited.
Papers now available (PDF 124k)
Future seminars being planned for 2010 (provisional titles)
- Telling or listening: offenders as service users.
- Working in a challenging culture: Surviving versus influencing the organisation.
To be added to the mailing list please contact Maureen.Nicholls@warwickshire.probation.gsi.gov.uk
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