Probation: Length of Service
(asked on 7th March 2025) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an estimate of the cumulative number of years of experience held by probation officers in each year since 2021.
The cumulative length of service, in years, held by all band 4 probation officers is given in the following table. Years’ figures are given as of 31 December each year from 2021 to 2024.
The service of Probation Service staff in Probation Trusts prior to the creation of the Probation Service on 1 June 2014 is not included and thus the figures presented here are an underestimate, and do not represent the full cumulative experience of Probation Officers.
Date | Number of probation officers in post | Cumulative length of service of all probation officers (Years) |
(Full Time Equivalent) | ||
31/12/2021 | 4,613 | 37,105 |
31/12/2022 | 4,648 | 38,332 |
31/12/2023 | 4,948 | 41,088 |
31/12/2024 | 5,283 | 45,667 |
The length of service in HMPPS is calculated from most recent hire date. Where staff have transferred in from another Government Department or have transferred in through HMPPS taking over a function, length of service is calculated from entry to HMPPS.
The dates reflect the Full Time Equivalent and cumulative years of service at that particular point of the year.
Data may not match previous releases as we are now excluding all staff who were not an active member of the workforce and receiving pay on the relevant date from our staff in post counts.
Data are extracted from large administrative data systems and are based on HR records.