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<p>The Government set out its response to the consultation ‘Strengthening probation,
building confidence’ on the 16th May 2019.</p><p>This consultation response confirmed
that we intend to bring the supervision of medium and low risk offenders, currently
supervised by the Community Rehabilitation Company, into the National Probation Service
across England and Wales. Recognising the unique delivery landscape in Wales, we are
seeking to achieve this by the end of 2019 so that advice to court, risk and need
assessments, sentence planning and managing enforcement and recall will all sit within
a single organisation.</p><p>Responsibility for delivering unpaid work, running accredited
programmes, and provision of “Through-The-Gate” resettlement services will remain
with the Community Rehabilitation Company until the end of the current contract. A
competitive procurement process will be run over the coming months to re-procure delivery
of these services once the current contracts end</p><p>A number of market engagement
events have been held in Wales to help inform the design of the future services and
the procurement process. We are keen to work with a range of providers including both
the private and voluntary sector. Work is ongoing to finalise the competitive process
for procuring unpaid work, accredited programmes and resettlement services and we
aim to have new contracts signed by the end of 2020.</p>
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