Inquiries and reviews
Sometimes we receive requests to carry out inquiries and reviews. For those that we have carried out, please see the details below.
Independent review of issues arising from the case of Joseph McCann
Upon request from the Secretary of State for the Ministry of Justice, HM Inspectorate of Probation will be conducting a two-part review of the case of Joseph McCann.
Independent review of the case of Joseph McCann (part one) (PDF, 637 kB) – published 30 June 2020 00:01
Statement from Chief Inspector of Probation Justin Russell (PDF, 154 kB) – published 30 June 2020 00:01
HMPPS and Ministry of Justice action plan – published 30 June 2020
Independent review of issues arising from the case of Joseph McCann – Terms of Reference (PDF, 202 kB) (updated July 2020)
A thematic review of probation recall culture and practice (part two) – published 10 November 2020
Independent review of the case of Leroy Campbell
Upon request from the Minister of State for the Ministry of Justice, HMI Probation conducted an independent review of the case of Leroy Campbell.
The full report (link below) was published on 11 September 2018 at 12pm.
Independent review of the case of Leroy Campbell: final report (PDF, 343 kB)
Investigation into the policy and process followed by the victim contact scheme in the Worboys case – 07 February 2018
The Secretary of State for Justice asked H.M. Chief Inspector of Probation to carry out a rapid fact-finding exercise to confirm the contact that took place between the NPS and the victims involved in this case and offer a view on whether this conformed with existing legislative provisions, policy and practice guidance. The Secretary of State indicated that the Chief inspector may also wish to make recommendations as to how this policy and practice guidance might be improved as the Ministry of Justice takes forward a broader policy review in this area.
The report was published on Wednesday 07 February 2018 at 0930hrs. The following link will direct you to where the report is published on the Ministry of Justice pages on Gov.uk.
Risk of harm inquiries and serious further offence reviews
We have carried out ad hoc independent reviews of Serious Further Offence cases – i.e. cases where an offender under probation or YOT supervision commits a serious further offence – at the request of Ministers.
In particular, during the course of 2005/2006 we carried out three independent reviews of SFO cases, each of which attracted considerable publicity:
Peter Williams, supervised by Nottingham City Youth Offending Team (PDF, 227 kB) published in September 2005
Damien Hanson and Elliot White, supervised by London Probation Area (PDF, 364 kB) published in February 2006
Anthony Rice, supervised by Hampshire Probation Area (PDF, 453 kB) published in May 2006
We also provide advice to NOMS HQ on the handling of their reviews of SFO cases.
We also carry out other Risk of Harm inquiries relating to particular cases.
- In March 2007 we published Not Locked up but Subject to Rules (PDF, 425 kB) the report of an inquiry requested by the Home Secretary following a Panorama programme in November 2006 about the supervision of offenders in approved premises (hostels) in Bristol.
- On 27 March 2008 we published Turning Good Intentions into Good Practice: an inquiry into developments in the multi-agency management of Risk of Harm in Gwent (PDF, 658 kB). This is the report of an inquiry into developments in the management of Risk of Harm in Gwent since the Craig Sweeney case in early 2006.
- On 4 July 2008 we published On the Right Road: an inquiry into developments in the multi-agency management of Risk of Harm in London (PDF, 354 kB). This is the report of an inquiry into developments in the management of Risk of Harm in London since the Gary Chester-Nash case in 2005.
- We carried out inspection work in London at the request of the then Justice Secretary in 2009 because of questions arising from the NOMS review of the Dano Sonnex case. Following an interim report in June 2009, in November 2009 we published the full report of the first set of case inspections “Risk of Harm Inspection Report: A Stalled Journey. An inquiry into the management of offenders’ Risk of Harm to others by London Probation (PDF, 1 MB)”. In this connection we carried out a second set of case inspections of public protection work in London in July 2010, and the report of this “Risk of Harm Inspection Report: Getting There Now – A follow-up inquiry into the management of offenders’ Risk of Harm to others by London Probation Trust” (PDF, 2 MB) was published in October 2010.
