Steven's SBM Research » Prisons http://sjhhanlon.wordpress.com My collection of resources for Strategic Business Management Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:54:27 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ en hourly 1 http://www.gravatar.com/blavatar/a4148e8f2a3245595f7ff89879a75556?s=96&d=http://s.wordpress.com/i/buttonw-com.png Steven's SBM Research » Prisons http://sjhhanlon.wordpress.com Please release me, by Gary Sturgess http://sjhhanlon.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/please-release-me-by-gary-sturgess/ http://sjhhanlon.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/please-release-me-by-gary-sturgess/#comments Thu, 29 May 2008 15:07:16 +0000 sjhhanlon http://sjhhanlon.wordpress.com/?p=215 ]]>

Please release me, by Gary Sturgess (PF 23/11/07)

Presents a dynamic contracting model, respecting managerial professionalism, as an alternative to central planning and government targets. Eg. Prisons, where contracting and benchmark competition have been used to raise standards across the sector. Contract make managers more autonomous and more accountable, and make it possible to enforce service standards.

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Prison and probation agency to be scrapped (Guardian 28/9/07)

National Offender Management Service to be scrapped in a reshuffle of the Ministry of Justice’s structure. NOMS has been tainted by a series of mistakes (IT programmes, over-large HQ).

Existed as an end-to-end management system on top of the separate prison and probation services

Also discussion of general structure: two parts of MOJ are not well aligned culturally.

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