Under his widely criticised shake-up in 2024, Lord Grayling part-privatised the probation service, splitting it into a publicly-owned National Probation Service overseeing high-risk criminals and 21 private firms in charge of managing 150,000 low- to medium-risk offenders.
In a wide ranging speech on probation, Ms Mahmood will take aim at former Tory Justice Secretary Chris Grayling, whose policies inflicted severe damage to the probation service.
Top Tory to be slammed for disaster plan that led to surge in ex-prisoner violent crime The Justice Secretary is expected to address a rise in newly released prisoners committing serious violent and sexual crimes in a major speech tomorrow.
Shabana Mahmood will promise to make the probation service better at protecting the public from reoffending and will hit out at the Tories’ dire handling of the crucial justice sector.
She will criticise how his decisions led to a surge in workload for probation officers and that the service has never fully recovered from his changes.
