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NATIONAL OFFENDER MENAGMENT SERVICE

(NOMS)

Her Majesty's Prison Service

(HMPS)

National Probation Service

(NPS)

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)

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

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)

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

Secure Training Centres Local Authority Secure Children’s

Homes Juvenile Prisons Young Offender Institutions

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..)

During the late nineteenth century volutary societies, led by Church of England Teperance Society, appointed missionaries to the London Police Courts – to reclaim drunkards and later other offenders.

1907 – supervision was given a statutory basis wich allowed courts to appoint and employ probation officers.Probation officers were formally empowered to work with offenders and to advise, assist and befriend offenders placed under supervison by court.Mayor development followed including the beginning of work with prisoners before and after release, civil court work and reparation in the form of community service.

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.

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.

MINISTRY OF JUSTICENATIONAL OFFENDER

MENAGMENT SERVICE The strategic commisong, coordination

and menagment of the prison andProbation system

NATIONAL PROBATION SERVICE

The National DirectorIs responsible for Performance and

developmentOf Probation

42 PROBATION AREASEach board is responsible

For local delivery andPartnerships with key justice

Agencies.

PROBATION STAFFINGProbation officers 8,520Probation Service Officers 6,330Admin/Other Staff 5,640Managment Staff 890

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

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)

protect the public reduce the risk of an offender committing a further

offence (under their supervision and afterwards ) their work begins even before the offender is sentenced

or released from prison keep contact with the offender and their family monitor the offender's movements while they are on

probation supporting victims of crime

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

NOMS in 2004 changed the pattern of correctional services delivery

The Offender Management Bill, introduced in Parliament late in 2006, was intended to enable some probation areas to become trusts as part of wider Government policy

The Bill is completed July 2007, and the first six probation trusts came into being on 1 April 2008 (Merseyside, South Wales, Humberside, Dyfed/Powys, West Mercia and Leicestershire & Rutland).

New Probation Trusts enjoy greater freedoms - they demonstrated that they were robust organisations capable of delivering to high standards of performance and efficiency.

Trusts and continuing Boards alike will have a larger role in the local commissioning of services from the private, voluntary and community sectors,

They all still have to deliver on their own contractual obligations to their Regional Offender Manager.