Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many resignations of probation officers there were in each month of 2010 and each subsequent year to 2021; and what the annual leaving rate was as a proportion of the workforce in those time periods.

The MoJ only holds data on the resignation volume for probation officers and the annual leaving rate of probation officers since the creation of the National Probation service in June 2014.

The resignation volume for probation officers for each month between June 2014 to September 2021 has been provided in a separate excel table.

Table 1 shows the annual leaving rate of probation officers between 2014/15 and 2020/21 (by financial year). The latest published data has also been provided for 12 months to 30 September 2021.

Table 1: Underlying leaving rate of permanent probation officers¹, 2014/15 to 2020/21, and 12 months to September 2021

(headcount)

Source:

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Data quality and scope:

Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system. Movements due to machinery of Government changes or due to staff transferring to or from the private sector as a result of changes in the management of establishments are not included in these tables.

(p) Figures relating to current financial year are provisional and may be subject to change in future iterations of the HMPPS workforce statistical release.

Notes:

1). Permanent staff are those with a permanent contract of employment with HMPPS.

2). Movements due to machinery of Government changes or due to staff transferring to or from the private sector as a result of changes in the management of establishments are not included in these tables. Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRC) came together with probation staff already in the public sector in the new Probation Service in late June 2021

3). As with all HR databases, extracts are taken at a fixed point in time, to ensure consistency of reporting. However the database itself is dynamic and where updates to the database are made late, subsequent to the taking of the extract, these updates will not be reflected in figures produced by the extract. For this reason, HR data are unlikely to be precisely accurate.

4). Does not include voluntary early departure or redundancy. In past editions of the bulletin, early retirements were also excluded from the calculation of leaving rates. Since the workforce statistics bulletin covering the period to 30 June 2017, these exits have been included in the leaving rate.

5). The service of NPS staff in Probation Trusts prior to the creation of the NPS on 1 June 2014 is not included. Figures presented here therefore do not represent the full experience of Probation Officers.