ENGLAND AND WALES

1. Bunić Ana-Marija Križanac Anita ENGLAND AND WALES

2. NATIONAL OFFENDER MENAGMENT SERVICE (NOMS) Her Majesty's Prison Service (HMPS) National Probation Service (NPS)

3. NATIONAL OFFENDER MENAGMENT SERVICE • department of the Ministry of Justice responsible for the correctional services in England and Wales • created on 1 June 2004, by combining parts of both of the headquarters of the National Probation Service and Her Majesty's Prison Service • The two bodies remain distinct but have a strong unity of purpose – to protect the public and reduce reoffending • NOMS is responsible for commissioning and delivering adult offender management services, in custody and in the community • The Director General of NOMS is Phil Wheatley • (responsible for delivering reduced re-offending and public protection)

4. Responsibility for delivering a reduction in re-offending and the management of offenders is devolved to nine regional offices in England and one office in Wales • The English regional offices are led by Regional Offender Managers.  The Wales office is led by a Director of Offender Management. • These leaders are experts in the offending-related problems of their local area and are responsible for: 1) commissioning services for their region 2) developing a regional reducing re-offending delivery plan 3) co-ordinating regional and local partnerships

5. HerMajesty's Prison Service • the United Kingdom Executive Agency tasked with managing most of the prisons within England and Wales • AIMS: • 1) Holding prisoners securely • 2) Reducing the risk of prisoners re-offending • 3) Providing safe and well-ordered establishments in which we treat prisoners humanely, decently and lawfully • The Prison Service does not manage all prisons within England and Wales (11 private prisons - managed by private companies)

6. Prisoncategories • Male adult prisoners • Category A prisoners whose escape would be highly dangerous to the public or national security • Category B prisoners who do not require maximum security, but for whom escape needs to be made very difficult • Category C prisoners who cannot be trusted in open conditions but who are unlikely to try to escape • Category D prisoners who can be trusted not to try to escape, and are given the privilege of an open prison. • Female adult prisoners • Category A is identical to that for men • Closed is for people who are not trusted to not attempt to escape • Semi-open was introduced in 2001 and is for those who are unlikely to try to escape • Open is for those who can be trusted to stay within the prison

7. Young offenders and juveniles • Secure Training Centres • Local Authority Secure Children’s Homes • Juvenile Prisons • Young Offender Institutions

8. NATIONAL PROBATION SERVICE • The National Probation Service for England and Wales is a statutory Criminal Justice Service which works with offenders either because they have just been released from prison or because they have received a community sentence (community rehabilitation order,drug treatment and testing order..)

9. A BRIEF HISTORY OF PROBATION • Duringthe late nineteenthcenturyvolutarysocieties, led byChurchofEnglandTeperanceSociety, appointedmissionaries to the London Police Courts – to reclaimdrunkardsandlaterotheroffenders. • 1907 – supervisionwasgiven a statutorybasiswichallowedcourts to appointandemployprobationofficers.Probationofficerswereformallyempoweredto work withoffendersand to advise, assistandbefriendoffendersplacedundersupervisonbycourt.Mayordevelopmentfollowedincludingthebeginningof work withprisonersbeforeandafterrelease, civil court work andreparationintheformofcommunity service.

10. In the 1970s and 1980s partnership with other agencies resulted in cautioning schemes, alternatives to custody ( day centers, special programme conditions ) • the probation order as a sentence and risk of custody and risk of reconviction assessment tools. • 2001 – The Criminal and Court Act re-named probation service as The National Probation Service for England and Wales: • replaced 54 probation committiees with 42 local probation boards • established 100% funding for the probation service • created the post of Director General • made chief officers statutory office holders and members of local probation bord - appointed by Secretary of state.

11. in its current form, the NPS is part of the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) within the Ministry of Justice • It consists of 42 probation areas which are coterminous with police force area boundaries • Areas are funded by NOMS and they are accountable to their Boards and to NOMS via a Regional Offender Manager • The work of probation areas is scrutinised by HM Inspectorate of Probation, which reports independently to UK Government Ministers.

12. MINISTRY OF JUSTICE NATIONAL OFFENDER MENAGMENT SERVICE The strategic commisong, coordination and menagment of the prison and Probation system NATIONAL PROBATION SERVICE The National Director Is responsible for Performance and development Of Probation 42 PROBATION AREAS Each board is responsible For local delivery and Partnerships with key justice Agencies. • PROBATION STAFFING • Probation officers 8,520 • Probation Service Officers 6,330 • Admin/Other Staff 5,640 • Managment Staff 890

13. NPS aims • Protecting the public • Reducing re-offending • The proper punishment of offenders in the community • Ensuring offenders' awareness of the effects of crime on the victims of crime and the public • Rehabilitation of offenders

14. Offenders on probation • Offenders are likely to be put on probation when: - a judge or magistrate gives them a community sentence • - the offender is automatically released from prison after serving half or two-thirds of their sentence • - the Parole Board decides that the offender can be released early from a jail sentence • - offenders on probation have to comply with the rules and requirements of their community sentence or their release licence from prison • Additional requirements of probation can include: - completing alcohol and drug treatment - staying in a probation hostel - staying away from the area where the crime was committed - a curfew, backed up be electronic tagging • Some offenders are made to stay in probation hostels, known as Approved Premises ( much higher degree of supervision)

15. The work ofprobationstaff • protectthepublic • reducetheriskofanoffendercommitting a furtheroffence (undertheirsupervisionandafterwards ) • their work beginsevenbeforetheoffender is sentenced or releasedfromprison • keepcontactwiththeoffenderandtheirfamily • monitor theoffender's movementswhilethey are on probation • supportingvictimsofcrime

16. Each year the probation service commences the supervision of some 175,000 offenders. • Caseload - excess of 200,000 (90% are male and 10% are female) • a quarter of offenders serving community sentences are aged 16-20 and just less than three-quarters are aged 21 and over. • Approximately 70% of offenders supervised will be on community sentences, and 30% imprisoned with a period of statutory licence supervision in the community as an integral part of the sentence • NPS assist magistrates and judges in their sentencing decisions

17. NewReforms • NOMS in 2004 changedthepatternofcorrectionalservicesdelivery • TheOffender Management Bill, introducedinParliament late in 2006, wasintended to enable some probationareas to becometrusts as partofwiderGovernmentpolicy • The Bill is completedJuly 2007, andthe first sixprobationtrustscameintobeing on 1 April 2008 (Merseyside, SouthWales, Humberside, Dyfed/Powys, West MerciaandLeicestershire & Rutland). • New ProbationTrustsenjoygreaterfreedoms - theydemonstratedthattheywererobustorganisationscapableofdelivering to highstandardsofperformanceandefficiency. • TrustsandcontinuingBoardsalikewillhave a larger role inthelocalcommissioningofservicesfromtheprivate, voluntaryandcommunitysectors, • They all stillhave to deliver on their own contractualobligations to theirRegionalOffenderManager.