SPOTLIGHT BACK ON SODEXO AS SOUTH YORKSHIRE CRC PLACED ON REMEDIAL MEASURES

News reaches Napo from a helpful MoJ source that one of Sodexo's Community Rehabilitation Companies has been placed on a Formal Remedial Plan under the contract with the Department.

 

We will of course make enquiries about what this actually means for our already hard pressed members, but information so far suggests that the CRC has been charged with developing an appropriate Remedial Action Plan. This will have to be agreed and signed off by the MoJ, and that a greater scrutiny and oversight by the Authority will take place with a fresh audit in February 2016.

 

The information also suggests that a failure to achieve the Remedial Action Plan targets within the agreed timescale may mean contract termination.

 

Napo predictions starting to unfold?

 

I would rather wait until we see more detail of what this dramatic development means, and the reasons as to why it has come about before offering an analysis, but I can reasonably surmise that it will include concerns around Risk management, Safeguarding and Domestic Abuse checks and the recording of information.

 

These and a number of other areas have already been highlighted by HM Inspectorate Probation on their fieldwork across the CRC estate so they ought not to come as a great surprise; but the fact that special measures have been 

implemented in one of the Sodexo owned CRC's is a pretty strong shot across their bows. It may also speak volumes in terms of how the TR debacle is starting to unravel, just as we said it would.

 

We will obviously get more news out on this as soon as we can, but meanwhile I am sure that Napo members everywhere will empathise with the situation being faced by our members in the South Yorkshire CRC.