Recommendation 182

Voluntary sector organisations “repeatedly” told HM Inspector of Probation that they would like direct access to probation case management systems. 345 “Access to the authority systems OASys and nDelius would put us in a better position for keeping abreast of all those changes as we go along”, we heard from Carrie Peters. 346 Rebecca Robson agreed that, for those days when her organisation is not hosting a probation officer, she would like “access to live information about risk that we had before when we had access to the other systems”. 347 Carrie Peters argued that this would also be in the interest of the Probation Service, because partners “could also record directly on to those systems, which would … save probation practitioners time”. 348