Community Rehabilitation Companies: Probation

(asked on 25th March 2019) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average caseload is per probation officer in each community rehabilitation company.


Answered by
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Rory Stewart
This question was answered on 29th March 2019

Figures on the average caseload of probation officers are not collected centrally. A probation worker’s tasks are not based solely on the number of cases they are managing, but the level of supervision each case requires.

The Ministry of Justice publishes statistics showing the total caseload of the 21 Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) as well as the National Probation Service (NPS). Figures for total probation caseload are published quarterly in the Offender Management Statistics Bulletin, England and Wales: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly

The table below shows the latest published figures with all offenders supervised in the community on 30th September 2018 at all 21 CRCs.

Durham and Cleveland CRC

3,719

Northumbria CRC

3,679

North Yorkshire, Humberside and Lincolnshire CRC

5,233

South Yorkshire CRC

3,699

West Yorkshire CRC

7,831

Cheshire and Greater Manchester CRC

11,776

Cumbria and Lancashire CRC

5,502

Merseyside CRC

6,156

Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire CRC

8,677

Staffordshire and West Midlands CRC

12,437

West Mercia and Warwickshire CRC

2,976

London CRC

29,549

Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire CRC

7,234

Essex CRC

4,022

Norfolk and Suffolk CRC

2,999

Kent, Surrey and Sussex CRC

8,652

Hampshire CRC

3,930

Thames Valley CRC

4,312

Gloucestershire, Avon and Somerset and Wiltshire CRC

6,317

Dorset, Devon and Cornwall CRC

4,189

Wales CRC

8,899

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