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 National Probation Service (NPS) and the Prison Service are working together under a new agency called the National Offender Management Service (NOMS), which has been created to cut further the re-offending rates and increase rehabilitation.

The NPS also works in partnership with other criminal justice agencies as well as with local authorities, health, education, housing and a wide range of independent and voluntary organisations.

Each year the NPS begins the supervision of more than 170,000 offenders, with male offenders making up nearly 90% of this figure. The average age of those under court order supervision is 30, with 25% of all offenders supervised aged 23 or under.

The aims of the NPS are:

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

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