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<p>The recruitment team has worked extensively to improve candidate experience by
broadening the information and communication channels available to potential applicants,
to help reduce attrition. This includes interactive webinars for successful candidates
to ensure new trainees are starting the role with a clear understanding of their responsibilities,
the organisation, and the trainee programme. We have also reviewed the trainee learning
and development curriculum to improve learner experience and have launched a refreshed
induction in March 2024.</p><p>For the period from 16 October 2016 to 31 December
2023, there have generally been two cohorts of Trainee Probation Officers who started
training each year. Out of the people undertaking this training:</p><ul><li><p>10
individuals resigned in the period up to one week after the start date of their PQiP
training course.</p></li><li><p>23 resigned in the period of over a week but up to
and including one month after the start date of their PQiP training course.</p></li><li><p>57
resigned in the period of over one month up to and including three months after the
start date of their PQiP training course.</p></li></ul><p>For the two cohorts across
22/23 there were 1,514 starters, for the two cohorts across 21/22 there were 1,518
starters and for the two cohorts across 20/21 there were 1,007 starters. We are unable
to provide data on 23/24 at the current time as this would pre-empt the next set of
published data, which will be released on Thursday 16 May 2024.</p><p><br>Notes:</p><p>1.
Includes staff on Trainee Probation Officer (PQiP) courses. A considerable majority
of these individuals are of the Probation Services Officer grade.</p><p>2. Resignation
date taken as the last day of service. Date that resignation handed in is not available.</p><p>3.
Staff who left for other reasons are not included.</p><p>5. In order to arrive at
this information there had to be some data matching from a trainee probation officer
staff list to staff who left to separate out trainees from substantive Probation Services
Officers. In instances where data from the staff list was incomplete with data such
as relevant staff ID then matching may not have been possible.</p><p>6. Data on the
number of starters each financial year can be found in the March edition of the Probation
Officer Recruitment Annex (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6464f746d3231e001332db9d/annex-probation-officer-recruitment-March-2023_final.ods).</p><p>7.
It should be noted that a considerable number of trainees withdraw from PQiP training
but remain in HMPPS. For information on withdrawal and leaving rates from PQiP training,
please see Table Three of Probation Officer Recruitment Annex.</p><p>8. In January
2023, a considerable number of PQiPs onboarded early to the Probation Service. For
the purposes of this response, we have looked at the time of resignation following
the time at which they started their PQiP training course. If any of these individuals
left the service before starting their PQiP training course, they have been excluded
from this analysis.</p><p> </p><p> </p>
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