The Greater Manchester probation trust has been highly innovative in developing programmes with the private and voluntary sectors, and it has developed a successful programme called Achieve, which involves getting offenders back into employment. It has scored much higher outcomes than the Work programme. Can the hon. Gentleman explain why the trust, having prepared to take that programme forward and to bid for one of the new contracts in a mutual, co-operative structure, was told that it would not be allowed to do so?
Offender Rehabilitation Bill [Lords]
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Kate Green
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 11 November 2013.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Offender Rehabilitation Bill [Lords].
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