Making sense of maturity: a snapshot of how probation practitioners used T2A’s ‘Taking account of maturity’ practice guide between 2013 and 2015

10 April 2017

Making sense of maturity: a snapshot of how probation practitioners used T2A’s ‘Taking account of maturity’ practice guide between 2013 and 2015

Probation

Open report

How useful did probation practitioners find T2A’s ‘Taking account of maturity practice guide’? Did it help probation practitioners to design successful interventions? This report examines how the University of Birmingham guide was used in dynamic settings to develop and change frontline probation practice.

Publisher: Centre for Criminal Justice Studies
Author: Dr Roger Grimshaw

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