No. Respectfully, that is not the fundamental lesson here. The lesson is that reducing reoffending is very complicated. The reoffending rate has been static across the developed world for nearly 50 years, and addressing that involves changing the lives of some of the most challenged individuals in society, dealing with their housing, their education and their early childhoods. Fundamentally, we need to be serious about the scale of the task.
Privatised Probation System
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Rory Stewart
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 4 March 2019.
It occurred during Urgent question on Privatised Probation System.
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