Found: planning in the event of collapse, including repatriation options. 2019 Working Links and other Community

Found: Examples of interventions examined by this Committee range from Carillion to Northern Rock, to community

Found: of the Transforming Rehabilitation reforms persists —sentencers lost confidence in the ability of Community

Found: Many group work interventions were put to the market which resulted in 21 community rehabilitation

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of new probation officers left the service within a year of joining in each year since 2014.

Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)

A considerable majority of Probation Officers first join the Probation Service as Trainee Probation Officers. During their time as a trainee, they will spend around 15-21 months training before potentially taking up a post as a Band 4 Probation Officer. As a result of this trainee pipeline, there will only be new Probation Officers with less than one year in the Probation Service if they joined the service as a qualified Probation Officer and then left within 12 months.

Retention of Probation staff is a priority for the service. A national standardised approach to exit interviews has been implemented to better understand the key drivers of attrition and feedback from these interviews helps shape and determine retention interventions at a local and national level.

The Probation Service is in its second year of a multi-year pay deal for staff. Salary values of all pay bands will increase each year, targeted at key operational grades to improve a challenging recruitment and retention position. The pay increases differ for each job role, but to provide an example Probation Officers will see their starting salary rise from £30,208 in 2021/22 to £35,130 by 2024/25.

The table below shows only those Probation Officers who joined the service as qualified Probation Officers and so will not include any Probation Officers who joined as trainees (who will all have been in the service for longer than a year by the time they qualify as a Probation Officer). The Probation Service unified in June 2021, bringing together the National Probation Service and Community Rehabilitation Companies. As a result, figures pre- and post-June 2021 are not comparable because of the change in the workforce makeup.

Table 1 - Number of Band 4 Probation Officer joiners to HMPPS and those who left HMPPS within 1 year: 2022-2023

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many community payback supervisors were employed in each year since 2010.

Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)

Community Payback allows the public to see justice being done by ensuring offenders are making visible reparations for their crimes. We have invested £93 million in Community Payback over a three-year period to boost the delivery of placements in local communities.

The new unified Probation Service launched in England and Wales in 2021. The Probation Service now has responsibility for unpaid work delivery, which had previously been the responsibility of Community Rehabilitation Companies, as such we do not have staffing data before 2022.

Yearly data since 31 December 2021 has been provided in table 1 below. The quarterly HMPPS workforce statistics publication covers staffing information, and the latest publication covers data up to 31 December 2023.

Table 1: Band 3 Community payback supervisors^1,2 in post each year, as of 31 December 2021-2023

Notes:

1. The community payback supervisor job title was first recorded on the SOP HR reporting system in October 2021, and therefore data before this point is not available.

2. Includes Probation Service pay band 3 staff.

Found: where these offenders are now recalled under a set of requirements different from that under the old Community

Found: Rehabilitation Companies - - - - - - - - - - Determinate sentences - - - - - - - - - - Less

Found: Probation Service (NPS) manage d the most high -risk offenders across seven divisions whilst 21 Community

Found: prisons closed 2014 • June: Probation Trusts cease to exist, and National Probation Service and Community

Found: see ‘Matching to the PNC’ in the ‘Definitions for the measurement of interim proven reoffending for Community

Found: CRCs: Refers to Community Rehabilitation Companies.

Found: Approved Premises teams created[note 7]In late June 2021, more than 7,000 staff from private sector Community

Found: In late June 2021, more than 7,000 staff from private sector Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRC)

Found: unification of the Probation Service in June 2021, the numbers exclude recruits previously seconded out to Community

Found: unification of the Probation Service in June 2021, the numbers exclude recruits previously seconded out to Community

Found: where these offenders are now recalled under a set of requirements different from that under the old Community

Found: Probation Service (NPS) manage d the most high -risk offenders across seven divisions whilst 21 Community

Found: Rehabilitation Companies - - - - - - - - - - Determinate sentences - - - - - - - - - - Less

Found: prisons closed 2014 • June: Probation Trusts cease to exist, and National Probation Service and Community

Found: Structure; Workplace; Transforming Rehabilitation; Offender Management; National Probation Service; Community