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Published<\/span><\/td>\n15\/03\/2016<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Type<\/td>\nEditorial Comment<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Author(s)<\/td>\nPaul Senior<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Corresponding Authors<\/td>\nPaul Senior, Professor of Probation Studies, Sheffield Hallam University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner column_width_percent=”100″ gutter_size=”3″ overlay_alpha=”50″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ align_mobile=”align_center_mobile” mobile_width=”0″ width=”1\/1″][uncode_share layout=”multiple” bigger=”yes” separator=”yes”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text]In the heart of the old county of Westmoreland 10 probation colleagues from all parts of Britain were arriving at a remote hotel location in what had all the elements of an Agatha Christie Murder Mystery Weekend. The death knell has been sounding for probation for some years now and this group was gathering to imagine what probation might look like in 2020, if indeed it had a future! Appropriately we gathered in the library though Col. Mustard was notable by his absence.<\/p>\n

The setting could not have been more fitting, once the home of the Gandy Family, this\u00a0fine, Georgian mansion became a Country House Hotel in 1947. There is a wealth of\u00a0history here and the Heaves Mansion near Kendal still retains the elegant character, which\u00a0befits a true Country House. It is still owned and run by the same family after nearly 60\u00a0years. Heaves has always been noted for a friendly welcome and a sense of peace and\u00a0quiet. Set in ten acres of formal gardens, woodland and parkland, the hotel has\u00a0magnificent views of the Pennines, the Kent Estuary and the Lakeland Hills. The thin\u00a0covering of snow on arrival somehow contributed to the atmosphere.<\/p>\n

This group reflected many years of probation dialogue, whether as practitioners,\u00a0managers, trainers, consultants, researchers or academics. But this was not a conventional\u00a0conference. Though it was to take place over two days and had an overarching theme,\u00a0Imagining Probation in 2020: hopes, fears and insights, there were no speakers, no set\u00a0workshops, no formal agenda. The outcome was at the start unclear, open ended and\u00a0possibly unreachable. Though individuals brought their own expertise and slant on this\u00a0unique and sometimes precious world of probation there was no consensus of thought. In fact those invited represented very different aspects and theoretical and research\u00a0preoccupations which were designed to create a real and critical debate. This was not\u00a0intended to be just a talking shop amongst fellow travellers and different perspectives had\u00a0been positively encouraged in the invitation to create what Bill McWilliams would have\u00a0once called a ‘constructively critical culture’ (McWilliams, 1980).<\/p>\n

This was only the second time I had attempted this kind of unscripted event the last time\u00a0circa 1975 when I was training as a social worker. Attending a fairly conventional even old\u00a0fashioned course in Hull with a predilection for psycho dynamic casework and the readings\u00a0of Florence Hollis we had heard on the periphery (a minstrel (early social media!) in the\u00a0form of Roy Bailey playing his guitar) about the anti-psychiatry movement led by R. D.\u00a0Laing and David Cooper. Not on the curriculum I suggested to my fellow students we\u00a0should go away to a remote location and debate these new ideas. I knew of an outward\u00a0bound place in the North York Moors, remote and isolated, which seemed perfect.\u00a0Everyone readily agreed. I prepared various papers, read all the works available of the key\u00a0thinkers and we set off. On arrival I sought a communal place to work and suggested we\u00a0start at 3pm. A football game had started outside and then as 3pm neared everyone\u00a0disappeared, I discovered later, to the pub at the bottom of the lane. I sat and sulked,\u00a0though about a dirty protest in keeping with my caricatured understanding of Laing’s\u00a0philosophy until they all returned around midnight. The following day people slept in,\u00a0went for a walk, cooked communally but steadfastly refused to engage. As we left everyone was refreshed and relaxed and pronounced what a great weekend it had been. I\u00a0quietly fumed about the lost opportunity.<\/p>\n

Chastened by this experience I have organised many conferences since but always with\u00a0speakers and workshops in them. I have always yearned for those parts of such\u00a0conferences where free discussion took place and the agenda could arise more\u00a0dialogically. In my experience that space for reflection, contemplation and critical thinking\u00a0has got squeezed over the years, though the conference experience in terms of learning\u00a0has not necessarily improved. The Conversation at Kendal was designed without formal\u00a0inputs to encourage just that reflection and critical thinking which can promote dialogue,\u00a0exchange and deep learning.<\/p>\n

There was a real danger that the discussion at Kendal could descend into a depressed and\u00a0fatalistic conversation about the havoc unfolding under the bifurcation of probation and\u00a0the growing consequences arising from the role of the private sector in shaping delivery.\u00a0But stimulated by a discussion on what might constitute the ‘essence’ of probation,\u00a0whatever the organisational arrangements, we were able to get into a debate not\u00a0circumscribed by current practices. We interrogated the fundamental nature of probation\u00a0arguing that there are functions which any civilised justice system would need fulfilled. Out of this fundamental discussion we began to create areas of mutual interest and work in small groups to shape particular ideas. What I found wonderful was how people who had worked in similar areas but had not met each other before began to revisit their own interpretation informed by mutual engagement. We were helped by five of the group having recently completed PhDs, so detailed and well researched evidence was brought to bear.<\/p>\n

Day One ended with everyone going down the lane to a pub but this time at my instigation\u00a0which treated us to some wonderful beers, a wonderful meal, the Lancashire Hotpot being\u00a0particularly outstanding, and a perfect way to recharge batteries. With our average age\u00a0exceeding fifty (at least!) an early night beckoned after eight hours of Socratic dialogue\u00a0had ended with some relaxed social discussion and a feeling of a great first day.<\/p>\n

So Day Two began to shape the contributions. Alliances were formed, commitments were\u00a0made and ideas were scripted. Two months only to reproduce our thoughts. This issue is\u00a0the outcome of our discussions (see pic below) with the welcome addition of three\u00a0colleagues, Wendy Fitzgibbon, Mike Nellis and John Deering who could not make the\u00a0event. This is a collective and individual account of our thoughts.<\/p>\n

Our first task was to ask a fundamental question about probation. Is there a set of characteristics which describe the ‘essence’ of probation whatever the particular\u00a0configuration at any given time? This prolonged and at times disputed debate did lead to a\u00a0level of agreement. This has enabled us to produce a joint article, (Senior and Ward et al.\u00a0in this issue) which is supported by all ten participants. The paper sets out those elements\u00a0which reflect universal ideals in probation. We also identified the key boundary points\u00a0where probation articulates against the core systems of corrections, social welfare,\u00a0treatment and community. These boundary disputes illustrate how probation as a social\u00a0organisation changes over time when it is placed against these boundary edges. The\u00a0article helps to place a mirror against current developments and ask how far do they\u00a0support or negate these core ideals. It also has the potential to provide a template to\u00a0evaluate any attempt to develop a probation system.<\/p>\n

The second contribution is this volume is literally a conversation that took place amongst\u00a0four people whilst at Kendal. Discussing the importance of occupational culture at\u00a0maintaining or changing the norms of an organization the discussion considered what\u00a0impact the TR changes may have on pre-existing cultural commitments in probation. The\u00a0original discussion was recorded at the event and with some minor editing, has\u00a0maintained its exploratory style. It raises some very key issues about what ‘probation’\u00a0might mean over the next few years and the possible directions it could take. The group\u00a0felt there are dangers in the changes but also there remain some more positive straws in
\nthe wind. This focus group style is an innovative approach to debate so please engage with\u00a0Lol Burke, Michael Teague, Dave Ward and Anne Worrall.<\/p>\n

The third article by Charlotte Knight, Jake Phillips and Tim Chapman could only have come\u00a0together through these conversations. All three authors have been working on aspects of\u00a0emotions in probation practice but hitherto had not worked together or shared the\u00a0overlap in their thinking. The opportunity to do so results in a paper of great originality.\u00a0The article weaves together findings from three different studies – emotional labour in the\u00a0current and future work of probation, emotional literacy in work with complex cases such\u00a0as sex offenders and domestic abuse and restorative justice in Northern Ireland. Drawing\u00a0on these studies the authors argue that the use of emotions is more than a technique to\u00a0be employed but an important human quality endemic to working with others. They\u00a0conclude that probation practice should seek to be emotionally literate because it enables\u00a0people who offend to be accountable and find meaningful contexts for a desistance\u00a0focused future. Such practices must be a key part of the probation offer in 2020.<\/p>\n

In the volume there then follows six Thought Pieces. These were created during the\u00a0Conversation, through fragments of conversations and ideas that were logged on a flip\u00a0chart and then taken up by one or more individuals and fashioned into these polemical\u00a0discussions. They are all designed to look forward to 2020 and to do so in a spirit of\u00a0engaging with both the fears and the hopes which may be present. Hopefully therefore
\nthey are grounded in the realities of present day challenges!<\/p>\n

Firstly, Anne Worrall asks some searching questions about the Probation Institute and\u00a0despite its difficult birth, asks whether it can become the place for the profession to seek\u00a0an independent and effective voice in the future. She thinks so! Paul Senior then focuses\u00a0on some of the governance and organisational concerns which confront the probation\u00a0world as it bifurcated into different agencies. It is a challenging analysis which also focuses\u00a0on the way in which such organisational changes have had a devastating impact on staff,\u00a0still reeling from the impact of the TR changes. The third contribution comes from Wendy\u00a0Fitzgibbon, who had been unable to join us but looking at what we had discussed created\u00a0this interesting piece about a current innovative project using photos, called Photovoice,\u00a0to create a vista on the Probation world. It is always gratifying to know that even midst\u00a0such dislocation that new insights continue. Creativity is at the heart of the probation\u00a0DNA, but Wendy sets this in the context of privatisation and asks some penetrating\u00a0questions about what kind of innovation will be promoted in the future – a challenging
\ndiscussion.<\/p>\n

The fourth Thought Piece comes from another colleague, John Deering, who was unable\u00a0to join us. John explores what it might feel like for practitioners in 2020 and provides an\u00a0insightful analysis of some of the problems attendant upon recent TR changes. Whilst John\u00a0identifies some aspects of practice which might be retained, the threats to the future are\u00a0real and possibly decisive. One issue which reverberated around the Conversation was the\u00a0in-out commitment to diversity and equality. The next thought piece from Anthony Goodman and Charlotte Knight focuses on the historical commitment in probation to the\u00a0exploration of what used to be termed anti-discriminatory practice and asks questions\u00a0about how such a commitment can be maintained and enhanced. The crucial challenge\u00a0being the need to always see such a commitment as an on-going concern, you never reach\u00a0the point when practice runs without a focus on equality issues. The sixth thought piece sees a creative gaze into the atmosphere in the CRCs and NPS in 2020. Days in the life of two workers highlight some of the issues which may characterise probation in a few years’ time. Jane Dominey and Lol Burke make important points arising from that dialogue. It asks questions of us all now as to whether we can settle for such a future?<\/p>\n

Anthony Goodman worked with Jane Dominey exploring what the relationship between\u00a0higher education and probation might become over the next few years. They present a\u00a0persuasive manifesto for action about the nature of the relationship drawing on historic\u00a0relationships between the two elements. The Manifesto concludes with a challenge to the\u00a0Probation Institute to help bring such a vision to fruition and I shall, as the current PI chair,\u00a0seek to promote many of the points made.<\/p>\n

Of the final three contributions, two articles were created after the event, one drawing on\u00a0recent doctoral research by Michael Teague and the other, a contribution from Mike\u00a0Nellis, who was unable to join the Conversation but produced this detailed paper on\u00a0techno corrections, setting out a distinctive agenda for the next few years. Michael\u00a0Teague focuses on the American context for probation where offenders increasingly fund\u00a0their supervision. The paper certainly offers a (somewhat depressing) view on the road\u00a0that probation might go down, now that it is part privatised and, though the contexts are\u00a0still quite distinctive, it is a cautionary road not to be ignored. This is particularly so given\u00a0the UK’s constant flirting with American ideas and approaches.<\/p>\n

Michael Teague also produces a final Thought Piece on the impact of neoliberal thinking\u00a0on the marketisation of probation services. He argues that Probation may have survived\u00a0for over a century outside the market, sustained by exceptionally dedicated and creative\u00a0practitioners but the weight of neoliberal influence does not bode well for the future.<\/p>\n

I could not have been happier with the way the event unfolded. Spending quality time\u00a0with people who shared their knowledge and understanding so freely was one of the most\u00a0enervating occasions I have ever experienced. Others reflected on two days well spent and\u00a0the opportunity for time out, in wonderful surroundings, with challenging colleagues and\u00a0now friends, was key to our successful engagement. We discovered I think, that we can\u00a0imagine probation in 2020, that the cycle of social change will adapt and change the\u00a0organisational arrangements and that using research and evidence remains key to finding\u00a0ways forward.<\/p>\n

I thank my fellow participants for being willing to suspend their imagination and focus on\u00a0possible futures for a beleaguered but never dead, probation ideal. It was a truly great\u00a0process, in a fabulous environment with stimulating and erudite colleagues. I hope the\u00a0end product will excite its readers as much as the journey excited me. Thank you!<\/p>\n

It is also time for me to sign off as co-editor of this journal since we started 14 years ago. I\u00a0go, reluctantly into retirement, and will always keep an interest in the progress of this\u00a0journal, created when we thought community justice might provide the\u00a0interconnectedness of probation practice in the changing world of criminal justice. This is\u00a0still a struggle but many of the ideals of community justice around restoration,\u00a0rehabilitation, desistance and relationships remain a valid goal for probation practices in\u00a0England and Wales and beyond.<\/p>\n

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