Prison Officers: Recruitment
(asked on 4th February 2022) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many applications to become a band 3-5 prison officer were received in each year since 2010.
This question was answered on 14th February 2022
The number of applications to become a band 3-5 prison officer received in each year since 2017, is shown in the table below. Data prior to 2017 is not available as it is not held on the Oleeo Recruitment Database.
Year | Number of Applications - Band 3 | Number of Applications - Band 4 | Number of Applications - Band 5 | Total |
2017 | 138,083 | 1,569 | 740 | 140,392 |
2018 | 97,848 | 1,829 | 1,426 | 101,103 |
2019 | 62,174 | 2,076 | 1,281 | 65,531 |
2020 | 80,305 | 2,671 | 974 | 83,950 |
2021 | 73,785 | 3,292 | 1,336 | 78,413 |
Notes:
- This data comes from the Oleeo Recruitment Database.
- Oleeo is a live system so figures may be subject to change.
- Data was only collected on Oleeo from 2017 and so data is not available for earlier dates.
- The majority of prison officer recruitment is at Band 3 and is external to the civil service.
- Band 3 to 5 prison officers consists of band 3 prison officers, band 4 officer specialists, band 4 supervising officers, and band 5 custodial managers.
- These figures include applications to the “Unlocked Graduate Scheme”, and to Operational Support Grade to Prison Officer / Youth Justice Worker fast track campaigns.
- Figures do not include recruitment campaigns managed by external companies.
- This data only includes recruitment for Public Sector Prisons.
- Youth Justice Worker applications are included in the count of Prison Officer applications.