When Chris Grayling was in office as Secretary of State for Justice between September 2012 and May 2015 he introduced a policy called Transforming Rehabilitation which had a devastating impact on the work of Probation in our nation. The impact of this failed policy continues to be seen and at some point a major reversal of many of the mistakes will need to be made. TR led to the loss of local probation services with the introduction of Community Rehabilitation Companies that spanned a much larger area than the local probation services they replaced and the theory was that they would commission services to support people who were requiring probation, primarily from the voluntary sector. As this blog explains the third year of the review by the TrackTR Partnership has identified that small voluntary sector organisations are providing vital support to offenders with little or no funding from probation services. Indeed the charities and other voluntary sector bodies that are receiving funding are primarily those with incomes over £10m. Now as far as charities are concerned, the sector in England and Wales includes 168,000 charities of which 2,251 have an income of over £5m. It is vital that our Government makes the best use of its public money and if the emphasis is on very large charities, this implies that the CRCs are failing to take support the very charities that they should be working with. The people who should be taking hold of this report and taking the CRCs and the current Secretary of State to task are the Police and Crime Commissioners. However most of them are completely out of touch with the reality of this situation focusing instead on their own view of what a Police and Blue Light Commissioner should be doing.