According to a Times report this morning, Parliament was told yesterday that yet another Government IT project is running massively over budget. This time it is the C-Norris project for the Prison and Probation services. Estimated to cost £244m, the latest updated estimates are for £512 m , or more than double.
As a consequence only the Prison Service data will be included, and at best the Probation Service will have a "read-only" access. Harry Fletcher, Assistant General Secretary of the National Association of Probation Officers, said "The Government's central aim of providing end-to-end offender management is in tatters."
What this means is that offenders will not be tracked through post-custodial supervision, at least not in a way which works seamlessly with their prison records. Given the number of ex-offenders who have been "lost", this borders on the frightening.
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The trouble is that the people in charge would not make the grade in private industry, and so they finish up....
When you're spending other people's money, at no risk to yourself, and possibly with an advantage to you if you accept a certain bid.....
Are you surprised?
They couldn't organise a pi..-up in a brewery!
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