Jan. 25 2024
Source Page: Offender management statistics quarterly: July to September 2023Found: Rehabilitation Companies - - - - - - - - - - Determinate sentences - - - - - - - - - - Less
Jan. 25 2024
Source Page: Offender management statistics quarterly: July to September 2023Found: Rehabilitation Companies - - - - - - - - - - Determinate sentences - - - - - - - - - - Less
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
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 supervisors1,2 in post each year, as of 31 December 2021-2023
(full-time-equivalent) | |
Date | Number of Community payback Supervisors in post |
31-Dec-21 | 427 |
31-Dec-22 | 576 |
31-Dec-23 | 635 |
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.
Mentions:
1: Baroness Burt of Solihull (LD - Life peer) It helps companies to access a rich talent pool, yet three-quarters of them discriminate against applicants - Speech Link
2: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Lab - Life peer) When it contracts with numerous companies and NGOs, does it require them to practice ban the box themselves - Speech Link
3: Lord Carter of Haslemere (XB - Life peer) Government encouraging businesses to employ more ex-offenders, which I strongly support as a key to rehabilitation - Speech Link
4: Lord Bishop of Gloucester (Bshp - Bishops) House and to the Church will be sorely missed.As has been said, there has been a serious decline in rehabilitation - Speech Link
Mar. 22 2024
Source Page: Five sentenced in £500,000 bank fraud and money laundering schemeFound: up businesses which claimed to sell furniture and carpets with the help of associates However, the companies
Asked by: Gulhane, Sandesh (Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party - Glasgow)
Question
To ask the Scottish Government whether (a) it and (b) public sector pension agencies, including the Scottish Public Pensions Agency, (i) have taken or (ii) will take steps to ensure that companies or agencies that conduct medical assessments of public sector workers with long COVID are made aware that long COVID clinics do not exist in some areas of Scotland, on the basis that NHS boards make their own arrangements for long COVID treatment, in order to ensure that ill health retirement pension applications are not refused simply due to the lack of attendance at a long COVID clinic.
Answered by Arthur, Tom - Minister for Community Wealth and Public Finance
Care and support for people with long COVID is being provided across the full range of services delivered by NHS Scotland. This includes assessment and investigation in a setting close to home by local primary care teams, and referral to community-based rehabilitation services or secondary care settings for further investigation of specific complications where appropriate.
SPPA’s occupational health advisers at Health Partners are aware that Long Covid Clinics do not exist in some areas of Scotland. Ill health retirement applications are assessed on a case-by-case basis and the medical decision-making process takes into account the available treatment options for an individual. This principle is also contained in the guidance issued by SPPA that should be considered by scheme employers responsible for managing ill health retirement applications from members of the Local Government Pension Scheme (Scotland).
Oct. 26 2023
Source Page: Offender Management Statistics quarterly: April to June 2023Found: Rehabilitation Companies - - - - - - - - - - Determinate sentences - - - - - - - - - - Less
Oct. 26 2023
Source Page: Offender Management Statistics quarterly: April to June 2023Found: Rehabilitation Companies - - - - - - - - - - Determinate sentences - - - - - - - - - - Less
Asked by: Ruth Cadbury (Labour - Brentford and Isleworth)
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
Year | All joiners | Staff who left within 1 year |
2022 | 42 | 3 |
2023 | 44 | 5 |
Apr. 25 2024
Source Page: Offender management statistics quarterly: October to December 2023Found: Payback commissioned by the Youth Justice Board (under arrangements separate to current Community Rehabilitation