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The Case for a Probation Professional Register

The Case for a Probation Professional Register. PCA Conference March 2013 Catherine Holland. Why have a register and why now?. To maintain an absolute focus on protecting the public, changing lives and fewer victims To recognise and protect the profession of probation

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The Case for a Probation Professional Register

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  1. The Case for a Probation Professional Register PCA Conference March 2013 Catherine Holland

  2. Why have a register and why now? • To maintain an absolute focus on protecting the public, changing lives and fewer victims • To recognise and protect the profession of probation • To provide assurance on standards in the new market • If not now – never!

  3. Transforming Rehabilitation • Ministers support will be critical • Will need to be a requirement • Must be provider neutral • Must be attractive to potential providers • Needs to be adopted as part of the design for the overall system • Need to start with a basic agreed model

  4. Who Benefits and How? • Commissioners, customers and service users – assurance of standards common between providers • Employers – level playing field, common training, transferability of staff • Probation practitioners – recognition as professionals, minimum level of training • Public – assurance of minimum standards of training and accountability

  5. Those on a register • Sign up to and adhere to a Code of Practice • Ethics -values, principles and personal qualities • Statement of professional conduct • Work within legal framework • Breach may lead to de-registration • Meet the required level of occupational competence (National Occupational Standards) • Hold a recognised and approved qualification • Are committed to Continuous Professional Development

  6. A Probation Institute? • Remit • Oversee qualifications • Manage the register • Specify CPD • Research • Complaints • Membership – employers, NOMS, Education, unions/staff organisations, public • Connections with other partners in the system

  7. Questions and Challenges • What type of register? • Who is registered? • Who owns it? • Who is it accountable to? • Develop own or join existing? • Timescales for implementation • Costs – who pays? • ……and many more

  8. What Next? • Workshop this afternoon • Business Case with options • Presentto the Transforming Rehabilitation team and to the Minister • Secure agreement • Implementation – easy!

  9. Final Thoughts The objectives of the Transforming Rehabilitation programme can only be met and sustained if the constituent players collaborate to make the whole system work. Ideas and comments by 3 April 2013 stevecos@live.co.uk mikeashe_uk@yahoo.co.uk

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