10. The C&AG's Report found only limited evidence that good practice was being exchanged between prisons or that private sector innovation was being incorporated into public prisons. The Prison Service acknowledged that more could be done to exchange good practice. Some innovative work on the care of juveniles which had been done across the sectors had been successfully transferred from the private sector to the public sector and vice versa. And the public sector had developed offending behaviour programmes which sought to change a prisoner's erratic or aggressive behaviour. These programmes helped to reduce re-offending and were increasingly being used by private sector as well as public sector prisons. Governors and directors had also been encouraged to move from one sector to another and there was now some two-way traffic at this level.10
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10 C&AG's Report, paras 3.13, 3.20; Qq 119-120, 131, 177-179