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<p>A Serious Further Offence (SFO) review is undertaken where an offender under statutory
supervision in the community is charged with a qualifying offence – a “notification”.
Not every notification results in a conviction for an SFO, as charges are changed
or dropped prior to the completion of the review.</p><p> </p><p>Serious further offences
are rare. Fewer than 0.5% of offenders under statutory supervision are convicted of
serious further offences. Nonetheless, every single serious further offence is taken
extremely seriously, and in all cases a review is carried out to identify any lessons
for the better management of future cases.</p><p> </p><p>The table below provides
the number of serious further offences (SFOs) investigations (reviews) in which the
supervising body was (a) the National Probation Service (NPS) and (b) a Community
Rehabilitation Company (CRC) completed between 1 January 2015 and 31 December 2018,
by (i) murder, (ii) manslaughter, (iii) rape, (iv) violence against the person and
(v) sexual assault. .</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>.<strong>Probation Provider </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>SFO
Offence</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td
rowspan="6"><p>a) National Probation Service</p></td><td><p>(i) Murder</p></td><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>24</p></td><td><p>47</p></td><td><p>43</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(ii)
Manslaughter</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(iii)
Rape</p></td><td><p>124</p></td><td><p>113</p></td><td><p>124</p></td><td><p>76</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(iv)
Violence against the person</p></td><td><p>95</p></td><td><p>105</p></td><td><p>149</p></td><td><p>137</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(v)
Sexual assault</p></td><td><p>43</p></td><td><p>36</p></td><td><p>37</p></td><td><p>24</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total
Offences</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>292</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>281</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>362</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>282</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td
rowspan="6"><p>b) Community Rehabilitation Companies</p></td><td><p>(i) Murder</p></td><td><p>42</p></td><td><p>47</p></td><td><p>65</p></td><td><p>71</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(ii)
Manslaughter</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(iii)
Rape</p></td><td><p>101</p></td><td><p>141</p></td><td><p>132</p></td><td><p>73</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(iv)
Violence against the person</p></td><td><p>44</p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>49</p></td><td><p>55</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(v)
Sexual assault</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total
Offences</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>202</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>235</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>273</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>211</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td
colspan="2"><p><strong>Total Reviews received</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>494</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>516</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>635</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>493</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><ol><li><p>Rape
includes; rape, rape of a child under 13, attempted rape, assault by penetration and
intercourse with a child under 13</p></li><li><p>Violence against the person includes;
attempt or conspiracy to commit murder, other offences resulting in death, and all
other SFO qualifying offences that are classified as violent</p></li><li><p>Sexual
assault includes; all other SFO qualifying sexual offences</p></li><li><p>Under the
Offender Rehabilitation Act (ORA) 2014 offenders serving short prison sentences are
now released on licence. As a direct and predicted result, there has been an increase
in the number of SFO notifications as a result of ORA. This does not mean that a greater
proportion of offenders under statutory probation supervision are being charged with
SFOs. The increase plateaued in 2017.</p></li><li><p>The number of ORA cases only
includes those cases that would not have previously fallen in scope of the SFO procedures
as mentioned above. Cases that were sentenced to an ORA sentence of less than 12 months,
but who were previously and concurrently subject to probation intervention, have not
been captured within this figure. For example, the offender was subject to a community
order, when he was further sentenced to under 12 month sentence under ORA. If the
CO was active at the time of the SFO, it would have qualified regardless of the ORA
sentence, so has not been counted in the ORA numbers.</p></li><li><p>Data Sources
and Quality .We have drawn these figures from administrative IT systems which, as
with some large-scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry
and processing.</p></li></ol><p> </p>
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