Amy Rees – Director General Probation, Wales and Youth
Update message to staff – Friday 26 November
Thank you to everyone who joined our all staff live event last week, it was great to see such high numbers of you on the call, sharing your comments and questions with us. As I said during my presentation, we know this continues to be a really busy time and some teams are experiencing particular challenges which we are working with Regional Probation Directors to try and resolve quickly.
Alongside this, as Jim Barton and Ian Barrow outlined, there is lots of work underway across the Reform and Workforce programmes to implement our Target Operating Model, recruit more staff and improve how we work. Whilst these big pieces of work progress, we are also looking at what else we can do in the short term to help you continue to deliver. We are bringing together colleagues from across the organisation to consider options with us. We will continue to keep you updated on all the work happening centrally and please remember we have lots of information here the Probation Hub as well as the FAQ page here.
Thank you to everyone involved in sharing their stories and delivering events during Trans Awareness Week. I hope lots of you were able to get involved and listen in but if you didn’t get the opportunity, you can still read the blogs here and the recordings from all the events are available via the Pride in Prisons and Probation streaming site.
Yesterday (25 November) saw the launch of 16 days of activism against gender based violence. The Probation Service is at the heart of the work happening across organisations to tackle violence against women and girls. Many of you work with perpetrators and victims of these offences every day so I hope you are able to get involved in some of the events taking place during the 16 days which will be an opportunity to reflect on your practice as well as increase awareness of key issues if this work is new to you. You can find out more about the events taking place here and I look forward to discussing these important issues with those of you able to join the session I am taking part in on the 9 December.
SPOTLIGHT ON: Strategy, Planning and Performance Directorate
Finally, for my spotlight section this week, there is an opportunity for you to find out more about the work of the Strategy, Planning and Performance directorate and how they work with us in the Probation Service across a range of areas including supporting your development as practitioners and continuous improvement. Find out more here.
Thank you as ever for all you are doing
