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Home > Arhiva > 2010 > Numar: 3 > No Longer Social Workers: Developments in Probation Officer Training and Education in England and Wales

 No Longer Social Workers: Developments in Probation Officer Training and Education in England and Wales

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  • Lol Burke (Senior Lecturer in Criminal justice, Liverpool John Moores University School of Law, John Foster Building, 98 Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, L3 5UZ, Tel: 0044 151 231 3941, E-mail: L.Burke@ljmu.ac.uk)

Like most European countries, probation training and education in England and Wales has traditionally looked to social work to provide its knowledge base for practice. However, in the 1990s this relationship was threatened by successive governments’ moves to toughen up the image of the probation service and in which an association with social work was seen as an obstacle to change. This paper examines developments since the introduction of a specific award for trainee probation officers and considers the implications of the new qualifications framework to be introduced in England and Wales in 2010. A key element of the discussion will be the extent to which the changes in training arrangements have resulted in a cultural change within the Probation Service of England and Wales.

Keywords: probation training, education, qualifications, cultural change, knowledge base

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