Running on the treadmill: Practitioner experiences of mass supervision

This article explores the impacts that addition of individuals serving short sentences has had on daily practice and working culture for probation workers. These practitioner perspectives are explored through lens ‘mass supervision’, providing a new insight into harms implications its inherent deskilling qualities constraints. empirical research underlines three main themes related to caused by mass supervision: firstly, it inhibits innovative practice; secondly, necessitates more limited model supervision undermines autonomy reach scope supervisory relationship; thirdly, corrodes values staff, leaving many experienced practitioners struggling ethically, practically emotionally. The experience is compared treadmill several employed as metaphor analyse in confines generic, monotonous relentless.