A Year of Change
| Date | 01 June 1966 |
| DOI | 10.1177/026455056601200203 |
| Published date | 01 June 1966 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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the
responsibilities
carried
by
the
service
as
a
professional
casework
service
arguments
for
the
appointment
of
an
increasing
proportion
of
both
senior
probation
officers
and
assistant
principal
probation
officers).
Lastly,
on
recall,
the
Advisory
Council
firmly
believes
that
procedure
for
recall
should
be
initiated
by
the
supervising
probation
and
after-care
oflicer,
who
should
be
empowered
and
encouraged
to
act
swiftly,
by
bringing
the
licen-
see
before
a
magistrates’
court
sitting
in
a
quasi-judicial
capacity.
All
that
the
court
should
be
required
to
do
is
to
satisfy
itself
that
a
reasonable
prima
facie
case
had
been
made
out
for
recall:
if
so,
it
should
recommend
accordingly
to
the
Secretary
of
State,
pending
whose
decision
the
court
should
have
power
to
order
the
licensee
to
be
held
in
custody.
In
these
matters,
the
Council
feels
that
the
protection
of
the
public
is
a
major
consideration.
There
need
be
no
delay
impeding
a
supervising
office
from
bringing
before
a
magistrates’
court
a
man
about
whose
behaviour
he
felt
cause
for
anxiety.
In
some
instances,
he
might
seek
the
support
of
the
court
only
for
the
purpose
of
a
solemn
warning
to
the
licensee,
but
it
seems
vital
that
the
court
should
be
apprised
at
the
earliest
possible
stage
of
circumstances
that
might
point
towards
a
later
procedure
for
recall:
and
it
must
be
recognised
that
recall
might
be
justified
by
an
accumulation
of
suspicious
circumstances
short
of
an
actual
breach
of
the
conditions
of
the
licence.&dquo;
Mr.
Noble
referred
to
the
development
of
voluntary
effort,
particularly
in
the
field
of
after-care,
and
concluded
&dquo;Great
things
lie
ahead
for
the
probation
service;
great
challenges
to
face,
greater
responsibilities
to
discharge.
There
has
been
a
period
of
uncertainty
which
came
when
there
had
been
the
stress
of
expansion
of
numbers,
the
development
of
new
schemes
of
training
and
the
anxieties
of
new
functions
and
responsibilities.
I
am
confident
that
the
uncer-
tainty
will
soon
be
forgotten
in
the
realisation
and
fulfilment
of
the
tasks
ahead,
and
having
seen
something
of
the
service’s
professional
capacity
to
shoulder
its
burdens,
I
have
no
qualms
about
its
future.&dquo;
A
YEAR
OF
CHANGE
Lord
Hamilton
of
Dalzell,
M.C.,
D.L.,
J.P.
The
following
extracts
are
taken
from
the
address
delivered
by
the
President
at
the
close
of the
Annual
Conference
of
the
National
Association
of
Probation
Officers
at
Hastings,
on
Sunday
1st
May.
I
SHOULD
LIKE
to
say
again
how
very
greatly
I
appreciate
the
honour
you
did
me
in
inviting
me
to
be
your
President;
during
the
last
year
I
have
been
about
a
bit
and
have
got
to
know
something
of the
Association
and
how
it
works
and
what
it
does.
I
greatly
enjoyed
attending
the
Conference
run
by
the
North
Midlands
Branch
which
gave
me
the
chance
of
meeting
quite
a
number
of
members
in
that
area.
But
the
thing
which
has
impressed
me
most
is
the
astonishing
output
of
the
little
gang
at
Endsleigh
Street,
with
the
help
of
the
National
Executive
Committee
and
the
various
other
committees
for
special
subjects.
Perhaps
the
most
important
point
of
the
year’s
work,
from
many
points
of
view,
was
the
long
struggle
which
led
to
the
new
salary
scale.
It
may
not
have
been
all
we
hoped
for
but
I
think
that,
in
the
present
very
difficult
climate
for
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