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INTRODUCTION & SUMMARY
Napo’s pleased to share our important Member Consultation on the strategy for professional issues in the new probation environment, One Probation One Profession. Napo’s proud of being an inclusive, accessible professional association and union where all and any members have direct access to making and shaping Napo policy so we’re delighted to be inviting you to read the draft strategy and give us your comments using the questionnaire at the back of the document. All replies will then inform a final draft strategy which will be debated at this year’s Napo AGM in Cardiff between 29th September and 1st October.
What’s in the draft?
Recognising the changed and unstable probation operating environment, One Probation One Profession aims to present a joined-up strategy that roots all parts of the new probation environment into a coherent, consistent professional framework. It contains proposals for all of the key elements to any professional framework, drawing from experience and best practice across other frontline public sector professions, such as teaching, social work and health professions.
These include:
- Proposals to define probation values and the principles to shape how these values are interpreted in practice at all levels across probation.
- Proposals for how probation should be regulated, including a licence to practice and ideas as to who could, and how this should, be implemented.
- A draft professional framework, critically covering all staff working on the probation front line, graduated from entry level to senior management, whoever they’re employed by, bound into assessments based upon probation values.
- A draft structure for bringing stakeholders from all parts of the new environment together to inform and sustain the professional focus – allowing partners to shape standards for continuous professional development, performance management, pay and reward to bind together a One Probation One Profession model.
- Ideas for how innovation can be tested and shaped in partnership, embedding the principle of evidence based thinking into probation practice, rooted in and tested against agreed probation values.
- Some innovative ideas of our own, such as CPD time banks and Napo Days to facilitate increased access to training and continuous professional development; and Probation Meets, to encourage staff to meet informally and celebrate what’s still great about being a probation professional.
This is a genuine consultation. As well as wanting to find out if you support this direction, we’re looking forward to seeing some of the ideas in the draft tested and challenged thoughtfully and constructively by those who know the probation best. This is a critical debate at a critical time. Napo, as the leading professional voice in probation, is proud to be taking the initiative and we look forward to your input shaping the strategy going forward.
Many thanks for your continued membership and support of Napo,