Restrictive probation licence conditions can have profound effects on rehabilitation, mental wellbeing and family life, particularly for autistic and mentally ill individuals.

Through lived experience and ongoing legal proceedings, I became aware of wider concerns around transparency, proportionality and the lack of clear mental health safeguards in probation licence decision making.

This petition is not about removing public protection measures. It is about ensuring that decisions are evidence-based, transparent, proportionate and properly consider mental health, neurodiversity and rehabilitation.

We are calling for:

mandatory mental health and neurodiversity impact assessments before highly restrictive licence conditions are imposed;

clearer written explanations for restrictive decisions;

accessible independent review mechanisms;

regular review of conditions affecting rehabilitation, relationships and wellbeing;

and improved autism and mental health training within probation services.

Public protection remains essential, but rehabilitation and mental wellbeing should also be properly considered within decision making.

📊 Early campaign findings from Transparent Probation UK surveys indicate growing concern around the impact of restrictive probation licence conditions on mental health, rehabilitation and family life.

So far: • 75% of respondents reported negative mental health impacts

• 75% reported impacts on rehabilitation progress

• 75% supported independent review mechanisms

• 75% identified autism/neurodiversity awareness as needing improvement

• 50% reported impacts on relationships or family life

This petition calls for: ✔ stronger mental health safeguards

✔ clearer and more transparent decision making

✔ improved autism and neurodiversity awareness

✔ rehabilitation-focused approaches

✔ fair independent review mechanisms for highly restrictive licence conditions

Public protection and rehabilitation should work together through fair, evidence-based and proportionate decision making.

Please sign and share to support constructive reform and greater transparency within probation licence decision making across England and Wales.