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Revised Guidance on Restricted Patients and the Mental Health Act.
This guidance on non-disclosure applications was revised in March 2024.
Parole Board guidance for members regarding prisoners who are children.
The is a public guide to show the Decision-Making Framework used by Parole Board members
Revised Guidance on Foreign National Prisoners
Revised Guidance on Judicial Reviews and Private Law Claims
This guidance supports Parole Board panels in identifying when a specialist report may be required and in making directions for specialist reports.
The updated Framework for listing oral hearings.
This guide for staff, offenders and their representatives covers what happens in the parole process, and the duties of the practitioners involved.
This guidance provides information about the different types of sentence and cases which panels may come across.
This is the revised guidance on Duty Member Activities.
Guidance for panels to identify if/when the support of an intermediary may be required for a prisoner.
Revised Guidance on Oral Hearings
The power to refer high-risk prisoners to the Board, in place of automatic release, is set out in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022
The Parole Board Observer Guidance has been updated.
This is the summary of the decision following the parole review for Glyn Razzell
A comprehensive review of the generic parole process for indeterminate sentence prisoners.
Guidance on the work of the Duty Member
This guidance is to assist Parole Board Panels with their understanding of, and responsibility for, setting licence conditions.
This booklet is for prisoners who decide not to have help from a lawyer when getting ready for their parole review and how best to prepare for an oral hearing.
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