TR is concerned with the supervision and rehabilitation of offenders in England and Wales.
Transforming Rehabilitation was the then Secretary of State for Justice, Chris Grayling's plan for the reform of the provision of services for offenders in the community, published in 2013 with a view to necessary legislation and reorganisation being put in place before the 2015 elections marking the end of the 2010-2015 parliament.
The plans laid in TR respond to an observation that despite increases in spending on offender rehabilitation, reoffending rates were not falling.
[1] Major aspects of the transformation include:[1][2] In April 2016, the National Audit Office, an independent body which scrutinises public spending, issued a report into the Transforming Rehabilitation process to date.
[4] The report was described as savaging the government's privatisation of probation services, asserting that the government lacks data on which to judge the performance of new private sector providers, and raising concerns that CRCs may be putting profit above public safety by failing to engage with classes of offenders, and may be manipulating or withholding data.