All probation staff in the NFS are employed by the relevant Probation Board, which is responsible for managing workload allocation. It is therefore not possible to provide information at this level. Information is, however, collected on the number of staff employed in offender management roles.
The following table shows the number of staff working in an offender management role from 2003 onwards. Data prior to 2003 were collated by a different source and were incomplete in some categories. They are therefore not directly comparable with the figures collected since that time.
Role 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 Increase (2003-07) Number of staff in offender management role 17,551.20 17,771.71 18,630.41 19,155.90 18,706.47 — Percentage 91.79 91.03 90.69 89.81 89.82 6.58 Number of staff in other roles 1,570.60 1,751.27 1,911.65 2,173.08 2120.86 — Percentage 8.21 8.97 9.37 10.19 10.18 35.04 Total number of staff 19,121.80 19,522.98 20,542.06 21,328.98 20,827.33 — Percentage 100 100 100 100 100 8.92