In his Westminster Outlook column in the Independent today, Mark Leftly reports: “At a rally held by the Napo union in Parliament’s Gladstone Room this week, around 150 probation campaigners hissed at the mention of Sodexo. Putting aside that company’s difficulties in running Northumberland prison, including a major “stand-off” with 50 inmates in March, and questions over what a caterer can bring to rehabilitation, the French group is not the problem…
A union survey of around 1,000 probation workers this week showed more than half of staff are looking for new jobs and that 98 per cent have “no confidence” in Mr Grayling. Still, he ploughs on, because, as the Labour MP Sarah Champion puts it, 'you can’t fight ideology with reason'.
The Independent titles have covered this story in depth this summer.”