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Privatised Probation System

Proceeding contribution from Bill Esterson (Labour) in the House of Commons on Monday, 4 March 2019. It occurred during Urgent question on Privatised Probation System.

My constituent Sam Cook was stabbed to death last year. His killer was on licence having been released after being convicted of a similar knife offence, but the probation officer did not know how to use the IT system, so the monitoring of the killer was not appropriate to the concerns of the probation service. I have no idea how that could possibly happen, and I am sure that the Minister is the same. Will he therefore tell us what processes are in place to ensure that processes are properly carried out, that every member of staff is trained to use the system and that we never again see another young man like Sam Cook killed due to inadequate supervision?

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Reference

655 c698 

Session

2017-19

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber
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