Improving Prison and Probation Services: Public Value Partnerships
‘Improving prison and probation services: public value partnerships’, published on 17 August 2006, sets out plans to extend contestability and partnership working as part of the drive to do better at protecting the public.
The programme’s focus is firmly on protecting the public and victims, and outlines the initial programme of competition, as well as a rigorous performance improvement process for underperforming prisons and probation boards. Key elements of the programme include:
- challenging underperforming prisons and probation boards to demonstrate improvements, with competition for providers who fail to improve;
- market testing (when legislation allows) a range of interventions across community and custody;
- a major extension of partnership working and sub-contracting;
- competitions for new business, including the building and operation of new prisons;
- pathfinder projects which offer new solutions;
- new competitions for previously competed services.
Date: Thu Aug 17 00:00:00 BST 2006
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