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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Danny Shaw

Plan to scrap specialist sex offender teams ‘a danger to public safety’, says probation union

A barbed wire fence
The probation service has come under fire after damning reports into five murders and two sexual offences committed by two men under its supervision. Photograph: Bertrand Langlois/AFP/Getty Images

Plans to disband specialist teams that deliver treatment courses for sex offenders have prompted fears public safety will be jeopardised.

Under the Ministry of Justice proposals, which are being fiercely resisted internally, behaviour programmes for a wide variety of offenders would be delivered by staff who are not fully qualified probation officers.

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