Phil Bowen writes about this year's Probation Inspectorate report which is highly critical of the Transforming Rehabilitation reforms.

David Thomason, Detective Constable at Cheshire Police, and Dan Price-Jones, Consultant Forensic Psychologist at North West Boroughs Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, spoke to us about their unique response to stalking.

Cristina Strood, Head of Policy for Police & Fire at the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner (OPCC) for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, told us about how they wanted to stop the ‘revolving door’ cycle of offending.

Charlotte Pritchard, Senior Commissioning and Policy Officer at the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Avon and Somerset, spoke to us about the Drugs Education Programme (DEP) with current updates provided by Caroline Elwood, Out-of-Court Disposals Manager for Avon and Somerset PCC.

What inspired this project?

The FDAC national partnership uses the term Service Standards to describe the key elements that FDAC services should strive toward to have fidelity with the evaluated FDAC model.

Charlotte Pritchard, Senior Commissioning and Policy Officer at the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Avon and Somerset, spoke to us about Project SHE with updates provided by Caroline Elwood, Out of Court Disposals Team Manager.

What inspired this project?

This handbook provides practitioners with comprehensive information and a set of tools about FDAC operations. This was developed by the now closed FDAC National Unit under Department of Education funding.

We spoke to Anna-Christina Jones, a Senior Research Assistant, about the work they are doing.

Darren Thompson tells us about what is new in Probation in the North East.