The Probation Service
This is a very exciting time to be joining the National Probation Service. The changes that are taking place are making our work more effective and will have a growing impact on the people we are supervising.
The Probation Service at the national level comes under the remit of the National Offender Management Service (NOMS), an agency within the Ministry of Justice. NOMS was established to join up the prison and probation services to enable the streamlined delivery of offender management, to cut re-offending rates further and to increase rehabilitation.
NOMS aims to:
The Probation Service works in partnership with other criminal justice agencies and with local authorities, health, education, housing and a wide range of independent and voluntary organisations
Each year the Probation Service begins the supervision of more than 170,000 offenders nationwide
The work we do
We supervise offenders aged 18 and over who are sentenced to a community order by the court or who are released from prison on licence. We also work with victims of serious crime.
A community order can be for a maximum of three years. It involves an offender carrying out at least one, and sometimes up to 4, from a set of 12 requirements. These requirements may include:
