The call has been made by Martin Jones, chief inspector of probation in England and Wales, who warns that it is “not sustainable” for adult probation services to deal with mounting caseloads as prisoners are released early to cope with overcrowding.
He says he wants to see the adult probation service caseload cut by 40,000 to ensure it can cope.
“Youth justice services is a very stable service,” he told the Guardian this week.
“It currently has a cut off at the age of 18. What if we asked youth justice services to reach out and actually deal with young adults up to the age of 21, and actually supervise them in that way?”
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