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<p>A wide range of accredited programmes are available for prisoners to attend where
they are identified as suitable. Referrals for courses and volumes delivered are kept
under review and suitability for any accredited programmes will be considered as part
of a prisoner’s wider sentence plan. We always try to ensure that courses are available
to prisoners at a suitable time in their sentence. In particular, we prioritise indeterminate
sentence prisoners for courses to ensure that Parole Board recommendations can be
implemented as soon as practicable. However, the completion of accredited programmes
is not a mandatory requirement to secure release.</p><p> </p><p>It is for the independent
Parole Board to review the detention of parole eligible prisoners. The Board will
direct the release of these prisoners only if it is satisfied that the levels of risk
posed to the general public are reduced enough that the National Probation Service
and its partner agencies can safely manage them in the community under supervision.
Prisoners are managed using a sentence plan which contains interventions that have
been identified to help them to address the risks that they pose. Management of the
sentence plan is a matter for HMPPS and not the Parole Board. The Parole Board will
consider how interventions identified by HMPPS, and undertaken by prisoners, have
impacted on the levels of risk posed by individuals.</p><p> </p><p>Information relating
to Parole Board recommendations is not held centrally and could not be obtained without
incurring disproportionate costs.</p><p> </p><p>While HMPPS is focused on giving all
prisoners opportunities to progress towards release, public protection must remain
our priority.</p>
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