RT Article
T1 Professional Registration of Probation Practitioners in a Devolved Welsh Probation Service
JF Probation journal
VO 72
IS 2
SP 186
OP 201
A1 Deering, John
A2 Feilzer, Martina
A2 Rabaiotti, Ella
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1929721684
AB In this paper, we consider the newly implemented Probation Professional Register Policy Framework in the context of the intent of the Welsh Government (WG) to work towards the devolution of justice, including probation. Thus, we reflect on devolution and its potential implications, the specific forms of partnership working and development in Wales, probation organisational culture, and questions of probation's legitimacy. We suggest that to make the most of the professional register's potential for professionalisation of probation practice, it needs to be embedded in an organisational structure and culture that fully owns and promotes the ethics and values of partnership working, taking a rights-based approach in the support for those who cause harm to victims and communities, and evidence-based practice.
K1 Legitimacy
K1 Organisational Culture
K1 Partnership
K1 Welsh devolution
K1 Professional registration
DO 10.1177/02645505251336647