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Earlier this year, the chief inspector of probation said the current system in England and Wales - with private firms monitoring offenders serving community services - was irredeemably flawed. The government says it will announce new arrangements in due course. Labour used a debate on on prisons and probation, to call on ministers to scrap plans for new private probation contracts and new privately run prisons. Mandy Baker reports. There's more from Today in Parliament at 11.30pm on Â鶹Éç Radio 4 and Â鶹Éç Sounds