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<p>The National Offender Management Service delivers offender management services
through both the National Probation Service (NPS) and Public Sector Prisons (PSP).
Information on the numbers employed since 2010 is given below.</p><p> </p><p>On the
1 June 2014, the probation delivery model changed with the 35 Probation Trusts being
dissolved and the inception of a new National Probation Service (NPS) within NOMS
plus the creation of 21 new privately owned Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs).
As a result of the changes the NPS directly manages offenders who pose the highest
risk in both custody and community with the remainder of offenders in the community
being managed by the CRCs.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Full Time Equivalent Staff Employed
in Offender Management Roles in Probation Areas/Trusts 2010 to 2014</strong></p><p>
</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Date</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Probation
Areas / Trusts</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31-Mar-10<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31-Mar-11</p></td><td><p>9,580</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31-Mar-12</p></td><td><p>9,270</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31-Mar-13<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>9,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31-Mar-14</p></td><td><p>9,660</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><ol><li>In March 2010 Probation staffing data was published at an aggregated level
as those by function (of which, Offender Management is one of them) were not published
as they were considered unreliable due to the change, at that time, in the way probation
staffing data was collected.</li></ol><p> </p><ol start="2"><li>In July 2012 the way
that probation staffing data was collected changed. From that date only staff employed
and funded by the Probation Trusts were included. This change did not have a significant
impact on the Offender Management function and therefore the figures presented in
the table are largely comparable over the period.</li></ol><p> </p><p><strong><br>
</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Staff Employed in Offender Management
Roles in National Probation Service (NPS) and Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs),
31 March and 31 December 2015</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Date</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>NPS</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>CRCs<sup>3</sup></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31-Mar-15</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31-Dec-15</p></td><td><p>4,860</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p><sup>3. </sup>CRCs became private companies in February 2015 and are therefore
responsible for the management of their own staffing levels. However, information
on the staffing of CRCs was collected until they transferred to the private sector.
At 31 December 2014 there was a full-time equivalent of 4,810 staff working within
the Offender Management function in CRCs.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Public Sector Prison
Service Staff Employed in Offender Management, 2014 to 2015<sup>4</sup></strong></p><p>
</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Date</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Public Sector
Prisons<sup>4</sup></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31-Mar-14</p></td><td><p>1,770</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31-Mar-15</p></td><td><p>1,620</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31-Dec-15</p></td><td><p>1,600</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><ol start="4"><li>Prior to 2014 Public Sector Prison Service staff working on
offender management were not identified on HR records. Figures include all staff identified
as working in the offender management function, including administrative support.</li></ol><p>
</p><p>Note to All Tables:</p><p>All figures are rounded to the nearest 10, with numbers
ending in 5 rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to prevent systematic bias. As with
all HR databases, extracts are taken at a fixed point in time, to ensure consistency
of reporting. However the database itself is dynamic, and where updates to the database
are made late, subsequent to the taking of the extract, these updates will not be
reflected in figures produced by the extract. For this reason, HR data are unlikely
to be precisely accurate, and to present unrounded figures would be to overstate the
accuracy of the figures. Rounding to 10 accurately depicts the level of certainty
that is held with these figures.</p>
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