final year 8600 probation staff were outsourced. Now,with job insecurity and high workloads, many are questioning their professional identityIn February 2015, and 8600 professional,highly-skilled public sector jobs were privatised. But despite strike action and fierce lobbying, the privatisation of more than half of the probation service in England and Wales has gone largely unnoticed. According to Gill Kirton, or professor of employment relations at Queen Mary University of London,privatisation on this scale has slipped through under the radar because it’s not glamorous and most of the public acquire little contact with probation services. “It’s not like the junior doctors,” she says. “These people are not commonly seen as heroes. It doesn’t acquire that feeling of working for the public obliging in quite the same way.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com