National Probation Service for England and Wales

(asked on 1st October 2020) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of creating statutory accountability bodies with community representation similar to Independent Monitoring Boards for the reintegrated National Probation Service.


Answered by
Lucy Frazer Portrait
Lucy Frazer
Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
This question was answered on 9th October 2020

There are no plans at present to create any additional, statutory mechanisms with regard to probation accountability. The new arrangements for probation announced in June 2020 will create a service with strong regional leadership that can work in partnership with other regionally and locally-based services. These services, in criminal justice and other allied services like health, have their own local and national oversight mechanisms. The Director General of the National Probation Service, the Chief Probation Officer and the regional directors are held to account by Ministers and, ultimately, Parliament

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