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<p>Successful joint working between the probation service and judges, magistrates
and other key partners is vital to ensure that we not only keep people safe by ensuring
offenders receive the most appropriate sentence, but help offenders turn away from
a life of crime by ensuring they have the correct levels of supervision and support.</p><p>
</p><p>The National Sentencer and Probation Forum has the primary aim of encouraging
and facilitating engagement between sentencers, providers of probation services, and
officials from the Ministry of Justice and Her Majesty’s Prisons and Probation Service
to discuss issues and trends which are relevant to sentencing and the provision of
probation services at both a local and a national level.</p><p> </p><p>There are also
a number of communication channels and existing forums to encourage effective joint
working between probation service providers and sentencers at a local level. We continue
to keep the effectiveness of these arrangements under review as part of our ongoing
work to improve probation services.</p>
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