The Management of Staff Sickness Absence in the National Probation Service - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Management of Staff Sickness Absence in the National Probation Service write by Great Britain: National Audit Office. This book was released on 2006-04-26. The Management of Staff Sickness Absence in the National Probation Service available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This NAO report examines sick leave in the National Probation Service, which was running at 12.3 days per person in the 2004-05 period at a cost of £31.6 million. A number of recommendations have been set out as follows. That the National Probation Directorate should agree with the Chief Probation Officer a consistent minimum standard for collecting and reporting sickness absence data in their areas. This in turn could be used to produce comparative analyses, and offer a basis to diagnose the causes of sickness absence. An upgrade in some areas of their information technology systems should occur, so that better management information can be compiled. All probation areas should implement the mandatory elements of the national policy on sickness absence. All Chief Officers should review their action plans for reducing sickness absence. Sickness absence should be managed effectively but sympathetically, by including return to work interviews, along with a means of distinguishing between avoidable and unavoidable sickness absences, and addressing the culture of absenteeism. Long term sickness absence should be reviewed as a matter of urgency. Policies relating to work/life balance should be implemented nationally.
Professionalism in Probation
Professionalism in Probation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Professionalism in Probation write by Matt Tidmarsh. This book was released on 2021-08-14. Professionalism in Probation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores probation staff understandings of professionalism in the aftermath of the Transforming Rehabilitation (TR) reforms to services in England and Wales. Drawing on the sociology of the professions, this book offers an original and timely contribution to the criminal justice literature, examining the ways in which professionalism in probation has been reshaped and renegotiated in response to the market logic that has dominated public services in recent decades. The case of the TR reforms offers a useful platform for exploring broader shifts in understandings of professionalism. This book demonstrates the ways in which professionalism in probation can be understood as a discourse through which professionals are expected to be receptive to the demands of multiple stakeholders – offenders, taxpayers, the state, and, additionally, the market. It situates TR in a marketising continuum, the logical endpoint of a period of reform that has sought to discipline staff and reshape their understandings of professionalism. Written in a clear and direct style, this book is essential reading for researchers engaged in probation, rehabilitation, criminal justice, and organizational and professional studies.
The Termination of the PFI Contract for the National Physical Laboratory
The Termination of the PFI Contract for the National Physical Laboratory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Termination of the PFI Contract for the National Physical Laboratory write by Great Britain: National Audit Office. This book was released on 2006-05-10. The Termination of the PFI Contract for the National Physical Laboratory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1998, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and Laser, a special purpose company jointly owned by Serco Group plc and John Laing plc, signed a 25-year long Private Finance Initiative (PFI) contract. Laser would build and manage new facilities for the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), comprising 16 linked modules, containing over 400 laboratories, and replacing many existing buildings. The planned cost of the new buildings was approximately £96 million. The DTI would pay Laser a unitary charge, of £11.5 million (1998 prices) a year once the new buildings were ready, the charge increasing annually based on the increase in retail prices. The project suffered considerable construction delays and difficulties in achieving the specification for some parts of the buildings, mainly due to deficient design. In December 2004, it was agreed to terminate the PFI contract. The DTI paid Laser £75 million for its interest in the new buildings. This was the first termination of a major PFI contract involving serious non-performance. This report examines the problems that led to the termination, why these problems arose, how the Department managed them and the value for money consequences of the termination. The report finds that the DTI successfully transferred risk in the PFI contract to the private sector, but that the project risks could have been reduced with firmer control and better communication. Up to and including the termination, the Department's investment in the new facilities was about £122 million (March 2005 prices). In return, the Department secured an asset valued at £85 million and for which all but eight of more than 400 laboratories should be capable of being made to meet its specification in full. The private sector reported a loss of at least £100 million.
Dictionary of Probation and Offender Management
Dictionary of Probation and Offender Management - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dictionary of Probation and Offender Management write by Rob Canton. This book was released on 2013-06-17. Dictionary of Probation and Offender Management available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Covers new ideas and concepts as well as the established probation lexicon, including institutional, legal, political and theoretical terms used in the discipline and importing concepts from the disciplines of sociology, criminology and psychology.
Improving the Use of Temporary Nursing Staff in NHS Acute and Foundation Trusts
Improving the Use of Temporary Nursing Staff in NHS Acute and Foundation Trusts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Improving the Use of Temporary Nursing Staff in NHS Acute and Foundation Trusts write by Great Britain: National Audit Office. This book was released on 2006-07-12. Improving the Use of Temporary Nursing Staff in NHS Acute and Foundation Trusts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Includes booklet 'Good practice in managing the use of temporary nursing staff' (39 p., 21 cm) on inside back cover.
