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.
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 |