National Offender Management Service - GOV.UK

National Offender
Management Service

We make sure people serve the sentences and orders handed out by courts, both in prisons and in the community.

Guidance and regulation

Multi-agency public protection arrangements (MAPPA): Guidance
- 27 February 2024
- Statutory guidance
NOMS graduate programme
- 6 November 2015
- Guidance

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News and communications

Prison governor empowerment and accountability
- 23 February 2017
- Written statement to Parliament
Justice Secretary Elizabeth Truss unveils landmark Prisons and Courts Bill
- 23 February 2017
- Press release

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Research and statistics

Story of the prison population 1993 to 2020
- 29 October 2020
- Official Statistics
Prison population figures: 2017
- 15 January 2018
- Official Statistics

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Policy papers and consultations

Security of prisoners at court protocol
- 31 January 2023
- Policy paper
Prison safety and reform
- 17 November 2016
- Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

NOMS service specifications for regimes
- 19 December 2023
- Transparency data
NOMS Annual Report and Accounts 2016-2017
- 15 August 2017
- Corporate report

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