Administration of Justice

(asked on 6th October 2017) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to enhance joint-working between probation services and sentencers.


Answered by
Sam Gyimah Portrait
Sam Gyimah
This question was answered on 18th October 2017

Successful joint working between the probation service and judges, magistrates and other key partners is vital to ensure that we not only keep people safe by ensuring offenders receive the most appropriate sentence, but help offenders turn away from a life of crime by ensuring they have the correct levels of supervision and support.

The National Sentencer and Probation Forum has the primary aim of encouraging and facilitating engagement between sentencers, providers of probation services, and officials from the Ministry of Justice and Her Majesty’s Prisons and Probation Service to discuss issues and trends which are relevant to sentencing and the provision of probation services at both a local and a national level.

There are also a number of communication channels and existing forums to encourage effective joint working between probation service providers and sentencers at a local level. We continue to keep the effectiveness of these arrangements under review as part of our ongoing work to improve probation services.

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