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<p>Safe, decent, rehabilitative prisons require excellent and experienced staff, as
does supervising offenders in the community to keep the public safe.</p><p>We want
them to stay in the Prison Service and to support retention, we have:</p><ul><li><p>Accepted
every penny of the Prisons Service PRB pay recommendations for 2023/24.</p></li><li><p>Injected
extra funding of more than £155 million a year since 2021 to support Probation staff
to deliver more robust supervision.</p></li><li><p>Rolled out BWV to every officer,
to help protect staff by defusing volatile situations.</p></li><li><p>Introduced a
New Colleague Mentor scheme to help new recruits feel supported in their early weeks
and months.</p></li></ul><p>Retention for prison officers is improving, with the staff
resignation rate dropping from around 10.7% to around 8.3% over the last year to December
2023.</p>
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