Probation training is now characterised by its integration of a skills-based National Vocational Qualification, with the broader demands of intensive degree-level study. Helen Schofield argues that whatever its shortcomings, the new training has a highly contemporary formation, which will make it capable of meeting the needs of probation staff, employers and the community in the 21st Century.
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National Association of Probation Officers ( 1999) Response to the Review of Welfare Services to the Family Courts. London: NAPO.
