The Ministry of Justice is exploring E-surveillance as an innovative technology to support tough community sentences and provide an alternative to custodial sentencing. The initiative focuses on real-time monitoring and immediate notifications to both device wearers and probation practitioners when electronic monitoring conditions are violated. By sending automated SMS alerts directly to individuals on probation, the service aims to demonstrate that tags are actively monitored, prompting immediate course-correction and increasing overall compliance. While technical prototyping has proven the concept's feasibility, the project is currently paused to address critical data reliability issues with external suppliers before moving into a live pilot phase.

𝐖𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞 𝐒𝐧𝐚𝐤𝐞 🐍 and 𝐓𝐈𝐌 𝐖𝐎𝐎𝐃𝐒

It’s a simple formality, when you are doing tedious low-value work, or waiting idly you write up a sticky note about it.

You select a central and visible place to record the type of waste so others can see it. Periodically you look at the visual and see what low-value or no-value tasks have been occupying the team’s time.

When you decide enough is enough, you allocate time to fixing the problem - reducing or eliminating the waste and wait times. I like to affinity sort, categorise into ‘insights/themes’, dot vote, and then explore potential experiments.

The real goal is to raise awareness of waste as the opposite of delivering value. It’s a critical tool to help empower teams who can control their own processes to identify non-value-adding wastes and discover ways to reduce or eliminate them.