Talk:National Probation Service

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'Teesside' is spelt like this not like this 'Teeside'. Common mistake.

Tagged to improve references

The article itself is well enough written, but lacks inline citations for all its items stated as facts. Rather than tag each individual item I have chosen to flag the whole article. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 21:16, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

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Obsolete page?

The page gives a good (in my lay opinion) overview of the history of Probation in Britain and Northern Ireland, but then says very little about the current (2023) Probation Service.
In particular, the 'Criticism' section seems to solely address the privatised system which, as the start of the page says, ceased to exist in 2021.

Ministry (talk) 20:59, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

Less or fewer?

I hope this doesn't sound like grammar pedantry, but this common error may be genuinely causing confusion!

In the statement:
...to rebalance sentencing in order to redress the drift towards less and less serious offences resulting in imprisonment or community sentences.

Does that mean:

• more offences that are categorised as less serious result in imprisonment or community sentences
  

or

• fewer offences that are categorised as serious result in imprisonment or community sentences?

Ministry (talk) 20:46, 5 July 2023 (UTC)