Believing that demanding, high-profile work with sex offenders is not fundamentally different from practice with other offenders and can be undertaken effectively by most practitioners, given good training and support, Northumbria Probation Service structured its management of the task in 1991 by appointing a specialist development team. Roger Kennington describes the history, initial progress and current developments of the team and argues that the skills, knowledge and confidence of workers has been enhanced, while overcoming familiar management problems.
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