Always the poor relation when it comes to proper funding, the body blow to Probation services was to put #FailingGrayling in charge. Chris Grayling has never come across a government department where he couldn’t make things considerably worse. #PMQs #wato

@Molly #FailingGrayling. We had an effective #ProbationService that was almost 100 years old, before the Tories decided that they could split it and privatise some of it.

Experienced probation officers left the service in droves, because of these structural changes.
At least even the Tories have realised it was a mistake, not that you really hear them say so