Official Statistics

Community Performance Annual, update to March 2022

An annual release of performance statistics for the Probation Service, incorporating Management Information on Accommodation and Employment outcomes for supervised persons.

Applies to England and Wales

Documents

Release Note: 26/08/2022

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Probation Performance Data Tables

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Targets for Probation Performance

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Employment at 6 Weeks Post Release from Custody

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Employment at 6 Months Post Release From Custody

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Employment at 6 Months Post Community Disposal

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Accommodation at Release

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Accommodation at 3 Months Post Release

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Accommodation at 3 Months Post Community Disposal

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HMPPS COVID-19 Emergency Accommodation Scheme

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On 26th June 2021 the privatised probation services (the Community Rehabilitation Companies) were returned to public control, and absorbed into the newly named “Probation Service”. The unified Probation Service is now responsible for managing all those on a community sentence or licence following their release from prison in England and Wales. The performance is monitored by the new Probation Performance Framework which is presented in these statistics.

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Ministry of Justice:

Secretary of State and Lord Chancellor; Permanent Secretary; Director General of Probation; Chief Probation Officer; Chief Financial Officer; Minister of State, Prisons and Probation; Deputy Private Secretary; Principal Private Secretary; Deputy Principal Private Secretary, Head of Prisons and Probation Desk; Private Secretary; Deputy Private Secretary; Head of Office; Deputy Director, Office of Director General for Probation; Programme Director, Probation Programme; Deputy Director, Probation Programme; Chief Executive, New Futures Network; Head of Performance Intelligence Function; Deputy Director, Effective Practice and Service Improvement; Head of Policy and Briefing; Directorate of Reducing Reoffending, Partnerships and Accommodation; Deputy Director Rehabilitation Policy; Press Officer (x14); Head of Data and Insight, New Futures Network; Probation Reform Programme - Policy and Briefing; Acting Deputy Director, Office of the Director General for Probation, Wales and Youth; Communications Manager – Community Accommodation Service (CAS); CAS Project Support Officer; Chief Operating Officer, New Futures Network; Head of Profession; Head of HMPPS Performance; Deputy Director of Data and Evidence as a Service; Director of Data and Analysis; Performance Analyst (x7); Operational Researcher; Business Intelligence Support Analyst; Principle Social Researcher, Criminal Justice Analytical Priority Projects; Head of Criminal Justice Analytical Priority Projects; Principal Research Officer, Reducing Reoffending (x2); Head of Reducing Reoffending Business Partnering Team; Director of Prison Policy; Director General of Policy; Head of Prison Performance; Prison Performance Analyst (x3).

HM Prison and Probation Service:

Chief Executive Officer of HMPPS; Executive Director - Strategy Planning and Performance; Director General of Prisons; DG and COO Prisons; Chief Operating Officer of Prisons; Executive Director - Prisons South; Executive Director - Prisons North; Executive Director - Long Term High Secure Estate; Executive Director - HMPPS Wales; Executive Director - Privately Managed Prisons; Executive Director - Youth Custody Service; Deputy Director - Effective Practice and Service Improvement Group; Head of Performance Improvement; Head of Performance Intelligence; Head of Information - Youth Custody Service.

Published 28 July 2022
Last updated 26 August 2022 + show all updates
  1. On the Community Performance Annual, update to March 2022 document, the following corrections have been applied. Section 1 Main Points, summary of probation performance is corrected to 8 out of 16 probation service levels were above or equal to their target at the end of 2021-22. Section 3 Probation Service Delivery of Service Level Metrics, year-end performance summary corrected to ‘8 probation performance measures were above or equal to the expected target and 8 were below target’. Section 3 Table 1, the target for SL020 - Persons engaged is corrected to 75%. Section 4 Employment, for prison leavers who were employed 6 weeks post release (excluding cases where the status was unknown), is corrected to 9.6% in the previous year. Section 4 Employment, for prison leavers who were employed 6 Months post release (excluding cases where the status was unknown), is corrected to 14.0% in the previous year. Section 4 Employment, for persons sentenced to a community order who were employed 6 months post their sentence (excluding cases where the status was unknown), is corrected to 36.7% in the previous year. On the Probation Performance Data Tables, the following corrections have been applied. National tab, SL020 - Persons engaged (row 18), columns Target January to March 2022 (%) and Target July 2021 to March 2022 (%) corrected to 75.0. SL020 tab, columns Target January to March 2022 (%) and Target July 2021 to March 2022 (%) corrected to 75.0. On the Targets for Probation Performance, SL16 tab, East of England (row 7), column Target for April to June 2023 corrected to 20%.

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