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<p>The table attached provides the vacancies for Band 3-5 prison officers, by establishment
(full time equivalent) on 31 March 2018 and 31 March 2019 – the most recent date for
which statistics are available.</p><p>Retaining and recruiting engaged and motivated
staff is critical to delivering the solutions to drive improvement across the service.</p><p>We
met our target to increase prison officer numbers by 2,500 early last year and have
now almost doubled that.</p><p>We continue to run targeted recruitment campaigns to
boost frontline staff for some of our most difficult to recruit sites, fill our remaining
vacancies and stay on top of attrition.</p>
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