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The safety and welfare of young people in custody is vital and the Ministry of Justice takes the issues raised in the recent Rainsbrook inspection report extremely seriously. We have taken immediate action to make sure these issues were being addressed by the operator.<\/p>

<\/p>

G4S\u2019s action plan for Rainsbrook, which is agreed by the Youth Justice Board, is not a government document and such documents are not normally published.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4183", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Faulks"} } , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Lord Faulks"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2015-06-29", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2015-06-29T16:05:53.063Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "54"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Justice"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Justice"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2015-06-15", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Rainsbrook Secure Training Centre"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "2"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25277", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Lords"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty\u2019s Government whether they plan to publish the action plan agreed by the Youth Justice Board and G4S for improvements at Rainsbrook Secure Training Centre following the OFSTED inspection in February 2015.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/2758", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Falconer of Thoroton"} } , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Lord Falconer of Thoroton"} ], "uin" : "HL480"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/381033", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Ministry of Justice"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/381033/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "

The safety and welfare of young people in custody is vital and the Ministry of Justice takes the issues raised in the recent Rainsbrook inspection report extremely seriously. We have taken immediate action to make sure these issues were being addressed by the operator.<\/p>

The Youth Justice Board is responsible for placing all young people in a suitable secure establishment that can safely and effectively manage their individual needs and risks.<\/p>

Table 1 shows the number of new admissions into Rainsbrook Secure Training Centre (STC). Young people can be placed from the community as the result of a custodial remand or sentence being given by the courts, or can be transferred from another youth secure establishment.<\/p>

<\/p>

Table 1: Number of new placements (admissions) into Rainsbrook STC from the week commencing 2 February 2015 to the week commencing 27 April 2015<\/strong><\/p>

Week commencing<\/strong><\/p><\/td>

Number of new placements (admissions)<\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

02/02/2015<\/p><\/td>

3<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

09/02/2015<\/p><\/td>

7<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

16/02/2015<\/p><\/td>

1<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

23/02/2015<\/p><\/td>

9<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

02/03/2015<\/p><\/td>

2<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

09/03/2015<\/p><\/td>

1<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

16/03/2015<\/p><\/td>

0<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

23/03/2015<\/p><\/td>

1<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

30/03/2015<\/p><\/td>

4<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

06/04/2015<\/p><\/td>

5<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

13/04/2015<\/p><\/td>

2<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

20/04/2015<\/p><\/td>

6<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

27/04/2015<\/p><\/td>

7<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

Total<\/strong><\/p><\/td>

48<\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>

<\/p>

Notes:<\/p>

1. A young person can appear as a new admission more than once during the reporting period. This would account for those young people who are released and subsequently recalled to custody, remanded or sentenced on new matters.<\/p>

2. The information presented is based on unpublished operational data.<\/p>

3. The information comes from Youth Justice Board's eAsset database which is the booking system used to place young people into custody.<\/p>

These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems, which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing and can be subject to change over time.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4183", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Faulks"} } , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Lord Faulks"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2015-06-29", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2015-06-29T16:16:54.65Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "54"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Justice"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Justice"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2015-06-15", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Rainsbrook Secure Training Centre"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "2"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25277", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Lords"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty\u2019s Government how many children have been placed in Rainsbrook Secure Training Centre each week since February 2015.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/2758", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Falconer of Thoroton"} } , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Lord Falconer of Thoroton"} ], "uin" : "HL481"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/381034", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Ministry of Justice"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/381034/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "

Further to my WMS of 11 June the errors in crowding figures began in 2008 \u2013 2009, under the then Lord Chancellor Jack Straw.<\/p>

<\/p>

The following is a list of prisons whose previously published crowding figures required correction in respect of at least one monthly figure during the period 2008-09 to 2013-14 as a result of misinterpretation.<\/p>

<\/p>

<\/p>

Aylesbury<\/p>

Blundeston<\/p>

Brinsford<\/p>

Bristol<\/p>

Brixton<\/p>

Bullwood Hall<\/p>

Bure<\/p>

Channings Wood<\/p>

Chelmsford<\/p>

Coldingley<\/p>

Dorchester<\/p>

Dovegate<\/p>

Foston Hall<\/p>

Full Sutton<\/p>

Garth<\/p>

Highpoint<\/p>

Holloway<\/p>

Leicester<\/p>

Lewes<\/p>

Lindholme<\/p>

Littlehey<\/p>

New Hall<\/p>

Northumberland<\/p>

Parc<\/p>

Parkhurst (part of Isle of Wight)<\/p>

Peterborough<\/p>

Portland<\/p>

Reading<\/p>

Risley<\/p>

Rye Hill<\/p>

Shrewsbury<\/p>

Swinfen Hall<\/p>

Thameside<\/p>

Wandsworth<\/p>

Wayland<\/p>

Wellingborough<\/p>

Wetherby<\/p>

Whatton<\/p>

Wormwood Scrubs<\/p>

<\/p>

<\/p>

The National Offender Management Service has taken action to ensure that future figures will be subject to more rigorous quality assurance. This includes strengthening the monitoring guidance for establishments to address common errors of interpretation, and adding further automatic checks to the management information system to pick up anomalies between prisoner population, cell capacity and reported crowding. NOMS will also issue an instruction to Governors to make sure that staff are clear about the definition of crowding and their responsibilities to quality-assure the data they submit.<\/p>

<\/p>

The errors came to light as a result of an internal check of the crowding returns in addition to the processes already in place for validating data ahead of the end-of-year publication of outturns in the NOMS Annual Report.<\/p>

<\/p>

Decisions on the future size of the prison estate reflect the current and projected prison population. Therefore previously understated levels of crowding have not informed any capacity-based decisions made by the Ministry of Justice.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4183", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Faulks"} } , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Lord Faulks"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2015-06-29", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "groupedQuestionUIN" : [{"_value" : "HL483"} , {"_value" : "HL484"} , {"_value" : "HL485"} ], "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2015-06-29T16:44:35.363Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "54"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Justice"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Justice"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2015-06-15", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Prisons: Overcrowding"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "2"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25277", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Lords"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty\u2019s Government, further to the Written Statement by Lord Faulks on 11 June (HLWS22), which prisons had been misinterpreting overcrowding figures between 2008 and 2015.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/2758", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Falconer of Thoroton"} } , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Lord Falconer of Thoroton"} ], "uin" : "HL482"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/381035", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Ministry of Justice"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/381035/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "

Further to my WMS of 11 June the errors in crowding figures began in 2008 \u2013 2009, under the then Lord Chancellor Jack Straw.<\/p>

<\/p>

The following is a list of prisons whose previously published crowding figures required correction in respect of at least one monthly figure during the period 2008-09 to 2013-14 as a result of misinterpretation.<\/p>

<\/p>

<\/p>

Aylesbury<\/p>

Blundeston<\/p>

Brinsford<\/p>

Bristol<\/p>

Brixton<\/p>

Bullwood Hall<\/p>

Bure<\/p>

Channings Wood<\/p>

Chelmsford<\/p>

Coldingley<\/p>

Dorchester<\/p>

Dovegate<\/p>

Foston Hall<\/p>

Full Sutton<\/p>

Garth<\/p>

Highpoint<\/p>

Holloway<\/p>

Leicester<\/p>

Lewes<\/p>

Lindholme<\/p>

Littlehey<\/p>

New Hall<\/p>

Northumberland<\/p>

Parc<\/p>

Parkhurst (part of Isle of Wight)<\/p>

Peterborough<\/p>

Portland<\/p>

Reading<\/p>

Risley<\/p>

Rye Hill<\/p>

Shrewsbury<\/p>

Swinfen Hall<\/p>

Thameside<\/p>

Wandsworth<\/p>

Wayland<\/p>

Wellingborough<\/p>

Wetherby<\/p>

Whatton<\/p>

Wormwood Scrubs<\/p>

<\/p>

<\/p>

The National Offender Management Service has taken action to ensure that future figures will be subject to more rigorous quality assurance. This includes strengthening the monitoring guidance for establishments to address common errors of interpretation, and adding further automatic checks to the management information system to pick up anomalies between prisoner population, cell capacity and reported crowding. NOMS will also issue an instruction to Governors to make sure that staff are clear about the definition of crowding and their responsibilities to quality-assure the data they submit.<\/p>

<\/p>

The errors came to light as a result of an internal check of the crowding returns in addition to the processes already in place for validating data ahead of the end-of-year publication of outturns in the NOMS Annual Report.<\/p>

<\/p>

Decisions on the future size of the prison estate reflect the current and projected prison population. Therefore previously understated levels of crowding have not informed any capacity-based decisions made by the Ministry of Justice.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4183", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Faulks"} } , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Lord Faulks"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2015-06-29", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "groupedQuestionUIN" : [{"_value" : "HL482"} , {"_value" : "HL484"} , {"_value" : "HL485"} ], "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2015-06-29T16:44:35.587Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "54"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Justice"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Justice"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2015-06-15", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Prisons: Overcrowding"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "2"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25277", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Lords"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty\u2019s Government, further to the Written Statement by Lord Faulks on 11 June (HLWS22), what urgent steps have been taken to ensure that future figures will be subjected to rigorous quality control.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/2758", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Falconer of Thoroton"} } , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Lord Falconer of Thoroton"} ], "uin" : "HL483"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/381036", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Ministry of Justice"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/381036/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "

Further to my WMS of 11 June the errors in crowding figures began in 2008 \u2013 2009, under the then Lord Chancellor Jack Straw.<\/p>

<\/p>

The following is a list of prisons whose previously published crowding figures required correction in respect of at least one monthly figure during the period 2008-09 to 2013-14 as a result of misinterpretation.<\/p>

<\/p>

<\/p>

Aylesbury<\/p>

Blundeston<\/p>

Brinsford<\/p>

Bristol<\/p>

Brixton<\/p>

Bullwood Hall<\/p>

Bure<\/p>

Channings Wood<\/p>

Chelmsford<\/p>

Coldingley<\/p>

Dorchester<\/p>

Dovegate<\/p>

Foston Hall<\/p>

Full Sutton<\/p>

Garth<\/p>

Highpoint<\/p>

Holloway<\/p>

Leicester<\/p>

Lewes<\/p>

Lindholme<\/p>

Littlehey<\/p>

New Hall<\/p>

Northumberland<\/p>

Parc<\/p>

Parkhurst (part of Isle of Wight)<\/p>

Peterborough<\/p>

Portland<\/p>

Reading<\/p>

Risley<\/p>

Rye Hill<\/p>

Shrewsbury<\/p>

Swinfen Hall<\/p>

Thameside<\/p>

Wandsworth<\/p>

Wayland<\/p>

Wellingborough<\/p>

Wetherby<\/p>

Whatton<\/p>

Wormwood Scrubs<\/p>

<\/p>

<\/p>

The National Offender Management Service has taken action to ensure that future figures will be subject to more rigorous quality assurance. This includes strengthening the monitoring guidance for establishments to address common errors of interpretation, and adding further automatic checks to the management information system to pick up anomalies between prisoner population, cell capacity and reported crowding. NOMS will also issue an instruction to Governors to make sure that staff are clear about the definition of crowding and their responsibilities to quality-assure the data they submit.<\/p>

<\/p>

The errors came to light as a result of an internal check of the crowding returns in addition to the processes already in place for validating data ahead of the end-of-year publication of outturns in the NOMS Annual Report.<\/p>

<\/p>

Decisions on the future size of the prison estate reflect the current and projected prison population. Therefore previously understated levels of crowding have not informed any capacity-based decisions made by the Ministry of Justice.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4183", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Faulks"} } , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Lord Faulks"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2015-06-29", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "groupedQuestionUIN" : [{"_value" : "HL482"} , {"_value" : "HL483"} , {"_value" : "HL485"} ], "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2015-06-29T16:44:35.68Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "54"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Justice"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Justice"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2015-06-15", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Prisons: Overcrowding"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "2"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25277", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Lords"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty\u2019s Government, further to the Written Statement by Lord Faulks on 11 June (HLWS22), when and how it became apparent that some prisons had been misinterpreting overcrowding figures between 2008 and 2015.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/2758", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Falconer of Thoroton"} } , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Lord Falconer of Thoroton"} ], "uin" : "HL484"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/381037", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Ministry of Justice"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/381037/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "

Further to my WMS of 11 June the errors in crowding figures began in 2008 \u2013 2009, under the then Lord Chancellor Jack Straw.<\/p>

<\/p>

The following is a list of prisons whose previously published crowding figures required correction in respect of at least one monthly figure during the period 2008-09 to 2013-14 as a result of misinterpretation.<\/p>

<\/p>

<\/p>

Aylesbury<\/p>

Blundeston<\/p>

Brinsford<\/p>

Bristol<\/p>

Brixton<\/p>

Bullwood Hall<\/p>

Bure<\/p>

Channings Wood<\/p>

Chelmsford<\/p>

Coldingley<\/p>

Dorchester<\/p>

Dovegate<\/p>

Foston Hall<\/p>

Full Sutton<\/p>

Garth<\/p>

Highpoint<\/p>

Holloway<\/p>

Leicester<\/p>

Lewes<\/p>

Lindholme<\/p>

Littlehey<\/p>

New Hall<\/p>

Northumberland<\/p>

Parc<\/p>

Parkhurst (part of Isle of Wight)<\/p>

Peterborough<\/p>

Portland<\/p>

Reading<\/p>

Risley<\/p>

Rye Hill<\/p>

Shrewsbury<\/p>

Swinfen Hall<\/p>

Thameside<\/p>

Wandsworth<\/p>

Wayland<\/p>

Wellingborough<\/p>

Wetherby<\/p>

Whatton<\/p>

Wormwood Scrubs<\/p>

<\/p>

<\/p>

The National Offender Management Service has taken action to ensure that future figures will be subject to more rigorous quality assurance. This includes strengthening the monitoring guidance for establishments to address common errors of interpretation, and adding further automatic checks to the management information system to pick up anomalies between prisoner population, cell capacity and reported crowding. NOMS will also issue an instruction to Governors to make sure that staff are clear about the definition of crowding and their responsibilities to quality-assure the data they submit.<\/p>

<\/p>

The errors came to light as a result of an internal check of the crowding returns in addition to the processes already in place for validating data ahead of the end-of-year publication of outturns in the NOMS Annual Report.<\/p>

<\/p>

Decisions on the future size of the prison estate reflect the current and projected prison population. Therefore previously understated levels of crowding have not informed any capacity-based decisions made by the Ministry of Justice.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4183", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Faulks"} } , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Lord Faulks"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2015-06-29", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "groupedQuestionUIN" : [{"_value" : "HL482"} , {"_value" : "HL483"} , {"_value" : "HL484"} ], "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2015-06-29T16:44:35.773Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "54"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Justice"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Justice"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2015-06-15", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Prisons: Overcrowding"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "2"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25277", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Lords"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty\u2019s Government, further to the Written Statement by Lord Faulks on 11 June (HLWS22), whether erroneous figures on overcrowding have informed decisions by the Ministry of Justice; if so, which decisions; and whether those decisions will now be subject to review.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/2758", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Falconer of Thoroton"} } , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Lord Falconer of Thoroton"} ], "uin" : "HL485"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/381067", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Ministry of Justice"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/381067/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "

Prior to 1 June 2014, Probation services in England and Wales were delivered through 35 Probation Trusts. Sickness absence information for the Trusts was published in the Management Information Addendum to the NOMS Annual Report and Accounts in each year until 2013/14. Information on sickness absence, on a monthly basis is contained in the table below.<\/p>

<\/p>

Annualised Average Working Days Lost in Probation Trusts - May 2010 to March 2014<\/p>

<\/p>

Probation Service<\/p>

Sickness Absence<\/p>

Average Working Days Lost<\/p>

May 2010 - March 2014<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

Month<\/p><\/td>

Financial Year<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

FY 2010/11<\/p><\/td>

FY 2011/12<\/p><\/td>

FY 2012/13<\/p><\/td>

FY 2013/14<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

April<\/p><\/td>

-<\/p><\/td>

7.6<\/p><\/td>

9.2<\/p><\/td>

9.5<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

May<\/p><\/td>

8.1<\/p><\/td>

8.3<\/p><\/td>

10.4<\/p><\/td>

9.0<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

June<\/p><\/td>

8.5<\/p><\/td>

9.2<\/p><\/td>

8.6<\/p><\/td>

8.2<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

July<\/p><\/td>

8.7<\/p><\/td>

9.0<\/p><\/td>

10.2<\/p><\/td>

9.6<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

August<\/p><\/td>

8.7<\/p><\/td>

9.0<\/p><\/td>

10.2<\/p><\/td>

8.8<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

September<\/p><\/td>

9.9<\/p><\/td>

9.7<\/p><\/td>

9.7<\/p><\/td>

9.6<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

October<\/p><\/td>

10.5<\/p><\/td>

10.0<\/p><\/td>

12.1<\/p><\/td>

11.0<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

November<\/p><\/td>

10.9<\/p><\/td>

11.1<\/p><\/td>

11.6<\/p><\/td>

10.5<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

December<\/p><\/td>

12.0<\/p><\/td>

9.9<\/p><\/td>

9.7<\/p><\/td>

10.4<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

January<\/p><\/td>

10.2<\/p><\/td>

10.4<\/p><\/td>

11.7<\/p><\/td>

11.3<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

February<\/p><\/td>

9.2<\/p><\/td>

10.4<\/p><\/td>

9.9<\/p><\/td>

9.9<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

March<\/p><\/td>

9.6<\/p><\/td>

10.5<\/p><\/td>

9.5<\/p><\/td>

10.0<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>

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Sickness absence is highly seasonal and therefore comparisons from month to month within a year are not helpful. Comparisons from the same month in successive years are the only reliable indicator of changes in absence levels.<\/p>

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<\/p>

All 35 Probation Trusts ceased to provide probation services from 1 June 2014 as a result of the change to the structure of probation. On that date both the National Probation Service and the Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) were formed. Sickness absence information was published for the new organisations for the first time on 17 November 2014, in the management information release, \u201cManagement Information for Probation, 1 June \u2013 30 September England & Wales\u201d. This publication covered sickness absence data for the period from June to September 2014. The information published at that time is contained in the table below.<\/p>

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National Probation Service staff<\/p>

Sickness Absence<\/p>

Average Working Days Lost<\/p>

June - September 2014<\/p>

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Jun-14<\/p><\/td>

Jul-14<\/p><\/td>

Aug-14<\/p><\/td>

Sep-14<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

NPS<\/p><\/td>

9.0<\/p><\/td>

10.9<\/p><\/td>

10.9<\/p><\/td>

11.7<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>

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Note: Sickness absence information is subject to final cleaning at the end of the financial year so the information presented in the Management Information Addendum to the NOMS Annual Report and Accounts will differ from the information as it was published in November 2014.<\/p>

<\/p>

The information in the table above relates to the four months immediately following the transition to the new probation structure. We take the health and wellbeing of probation staff extremely seriously and we recognise that the transition was a challenging time for them. Support arrangements were in place from the outset and staff continue to be supported.<\/p>

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Sickness absence for the whole of 2014/15 will be published on 30 July 2015 in the Management Information Addendum to the NOMS Annual Report and Accounts. This will address the as yet unpublished final period of probation trusts for April and May 2014, and for the NPS from October 2014 to March 2015.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1453", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Andrew Selous"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "South West Bedfordshire"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Andrew Selous"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2015-06-23", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2015-06-23T17:00:20.36Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "54"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Justice"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Justice"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2015-06-15", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "National Probation Service for England and Wales: Sick Leave"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many days' absence due to sickness of staff working for the National Probation Service there were in each month since May 2010.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/400", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for John Healey"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Wentworth and Dearne"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "John Healey"} ], "uin" : "2536"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/381170", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Ministry of Justice"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/381170/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "

The National Probation Service has the statutory responsibility, under the Domestic Violence Crime and Victims Act 2004 and the Code of Practice for Victims of Crime, for the Victim Contact Scheme. The Scheme provides victims of sexual and violent offences, where the offender receives a prison sentence of 12 months or more, with the right, should they so choose, to be informed of key stages in an offender\u2019s sentence, such as if the offender is transferred to open conditions or released. Victims have the statutory right to make representations about the licence conditions to which the offender will be subject on release. Where an offender is serving an indeterminate sentence, such that the offender may be released only on the direction of the independent Parole Board, victims may submit a Victim Personal Statement to the Parole Board, setting out the impact which the offence had and continues to have on them.<\/p>

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Victims are asked for feedback through a satisfaction survey that takes place after the first face-to-face contact with a Probation Victim Liaison Officer. The latest figures can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-and-probation-trusts-performance-statistics-201314<\/a>.<\/p>

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The Coalition government legislated for secure colleges and we are now considering the next steps.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1453", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Andrew Selous"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "South West Bedfordshire"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Andrew Selous"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2015-06-18", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2015-06-18T12:59:53.467Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "54"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Justice"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Justice"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2015-06-15", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Secure Colleges"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when his Department plans to approve the contract for the Secure College.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4243", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Dan Jarvis"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Barnsley Central"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Dan Jarvis"} ], "uin" : "2412"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/381188", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Ministry of Justice"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/381188/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "

Data is not collected on the average number of hours of purposeful activities delivered weekly at each Secure Training Centre (STC). Young people in STCs are required to be out of their room for 14 hours each day, and are required to participate in education or training courses for at least 25 hours per week and 5 hours of offending behaviour programmes.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1453", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Andrew Selous"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "South West Bedfordshire"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Andrew Selous"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2015-06-18", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2015-06-18T12:04:34.717Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "54"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Justice"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Justice"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2015-06-15", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Secure Training Centres: Employment"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the average number of hours of purposeful activity delivered each week at each secure training centre in each year since 2010.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4243", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Dan Jarvis"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Barnsley Central"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Dan Jarvis"} ], "uin" : "2482"} ], "itemsPerPage" : 10, "next" : "http://eldaddp.azurewebsites.net/answeredquestions.text?_page=1&answeringDeptSortName=Justice®isteredInterest=false&dateTabled=2015-06-15", "page" : 0, "startIndex" : 1, "totalResults" : 21, "type" : ["http://purl.org/linked-data/api/vocab#ListEndpoint", "http://purl.org/linked-data/api/vocab#Page"]} }