A breakdown of the number of people in training as probation officers and the cost per student is contained in the following tables. Cost information is only available from 2003-04 onwards, when the Home Office took over responsibility for the higher education contracts. It is not possible to provide the information by region.
Trainee Probation Officer 1997 — 1998 229 1999 523 2000 564 2001 1,096 2002 1,566 2003 1,818 2004 1,774 2005 1,387 2006 1,134 Notes: All figures are given as full time equivalent (FTE), and are rounded up to the nearest full employee. All figures are taken as at 31 December of the relevant year. Figures from 1997 to 2002 are taken from the RDS Probation Statistics, while those for 2003-04 onwards are lifted from the quarterly workforce information report produced by PACU (formerly NPD).
Financial year Cost per student 2003-04 34,517 2004-05 35,367 2005-06 36,167 2006-07 36,227 Note: The new trainee allowance is based upon the trainee base allowance, but adjusted in line with each Board’s labour cost factor and pension cost factor. For 2006-07 only, a further pension adjustment was made to the allowance. The figures also include the average university administration cost per year.