Probation

• Philosophy

  National Probation Service (NPS) statutory criminal justice service supervises high risk offenders released into the community and provides statutory support of victims of serious sexual or violent
• Probation

  Philosophy

  Prioritises protecting the public by rehabilitating offenders, by tackling the causes of their offending and enabling them to turn their lives around
• Core values and principles

  • Belief that offenders can change for the better and become responsible members of society
  • Belief in the worth and dignity of the individual
  • Commitment to social justice, social inclusion, equality and diversity
• Aims and objectives

  Priority to protect the public by the effective rehabilitation of offenders, by reducing the causes which contribute to offending and enabling. Offenders to turn their lives around
• Aims and objectives:

  • preparing pre - sentencing reports for the courts, to help them select the most appropriate sentence for the individual offender
  • Managing approved premises offenders whose sentence includes a resident requirement
  • (EG must live in supervised accomodation)
• Aims and objectives

  • Assessing prisoners to prepare them for their release on license back into the community, come under NHS supervision
  • Helping offenders serving sentences in the community to meet the requirement ordered by the courts
• Aims and Objectives

  • When an offender receives a prison sentence of 12 months or more for a serious violence or sexual crime
  • Or is detained as a mental health patient, NPS communicates with and prioritizes the wellbeing of the offender's victims
• Funding

  National Probation Service is part of the HM Prison and Probation Service, overall budget £4.6 billion in 2018. Shared between prisons and probation. Budget is provided by the government and comes from General taxation
• Funding

  Community rehabilitation companies (CRCs) were private businesses that had a contract with the Ministry of Justice to provide probation services. Paid for meeting rehabiliation targets agreed in their contracts
• Funding

  19 of the 21 missed their targets by reducing re - offending and solve were even supervising their offenders remotely by telephone
• Types of Criminality/Offenders

  Probation service supervises two types of clients

  1. Offenders serving a sentence in the community rather than in prison, as a result of a community order by the court. May involve requirements such as: EGs
  2. up to 300 hours unpaid work (community payback)
  3. An exclusion order or curfew, or a residency requirement
• Reach

  12 regions in England and Wales, each overseen by a regional probation director