The UK will undo the privatization of probation officers.

One privatization down, dozens or hundreds to go. Tory privatization was a blind ideology underpinned by dooH niboR.

Occasionally the state does something there is no need for the state to do, because it works for people to get that something privately from a competitive market (properly regulated, to be sure, and assuming that the state makes sure people don't fall into poverty). In that case, the state can simply stop that activity and leave it to private business.

However, outsourcing a state activity to a business is never a good policy. It leads to low pay for the workers and bad, unaccountable service for the public