Private firms safety fears

I’M SO ALONE Sinead tells of her two years of misery PRIVATE probation services are failing to keep the public safe and must go back to public control, the Government is warned.

Plans to outsource night-time supervision in probation hostels will also put people at risk because staff may be poorly-trained and low paid, unions fear.

Three unions have written to Justice Minister David Lidington. Unison’s Ben Priestley said: “People are potentially being put at risk because private firms have not delivered on keeping the public safe.”