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Probation service sell-off is safe, insists Grayling
Leaked government assessment warns of probation service sell off
Justice Secretary Chris Grayling insisted yesterday that it was safe to sell off the probation service, despite a leaked government assessment saying the opposite.
Mr Grayling told the justice select committee that the report was "theoretical" and refused demands to release other internal risk assessments into the sell-off.
Under the government's plans up to 70 per cent of the probation service would be sold off.
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