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Interface Magazine

Spring 2011

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Interface interviews Justice Minister Crispin Blunt about the Government's "Rehabilitation Revolution" and his thoughts on probation.

Also inside: Chief Executive Christine Lawrie on the Community Payback competition; the PA's response to the Green Paper Breaking the Cycle; an interview with Sue Hall, Chair of the Probation Chiefs Association and features on HM Treasury's Community Budgets initiative and Transition to Adulthood - the campaign for young adults to be treated differently within the criminal justice system.

Autumn 2010

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This edition looks at how trusts can exert an influence on the criminal justice agenda and the Government's planned reform of sentencing and rehabilition. Two peers and a number of trust chairs give their views.

Also inside: Interviews with Michael Spurr, Chief Executive of NOMS; the outgoing chairman of the Association, Alan Wooderson; his successor, Sebert Cox; Unison's Ben Priestley; John Steele, Chair of Surrey and Sussex Probation Trust (who describes a pilot to test less bureaucratic ways of working) and the Association's Jo Whyte.

Winter 2009

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The cover story provides the latest on the Association's calls for a greater integration of probation performance targets with the localism agenda.

The magazine also carries a feature article on the 50th anniversary of the Association. Also inside are in-depth interviews with: David Walton, National Secretary of GMB Scoop, the union for probation chief officers and chief executives; Frances Crook, Director of the Howard League for Penal Reform and Sebert Cox, Chair of Durham Tees Valley Probation Trust.

Spring 2009

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The first issue of Interface, the magazine of the Probation Association, includes in-depth articles about developments in the world of probation, a personal view from Jonathan Ledger, General Secretary of the National Association of Probation Officers, and profiles of prominent stakeholders and members of the Association team.