The core regional structure has been developed to deliver offender management at regional level. The DOM structure has been designed to deliver the objectives of the organisation by placing resources at the front line to best meet community needs while ensuring the delivery of national standards and specifications.
The template is scaleable to match the size of each of the regions but the main structure is identical across the nine regions and Wales. A number of other posts may work under the DOM but are not shown in the regional structure as these receive funding from elsewhere.
The new regional offices opened as part of an organisational restructure in April 2009. We have been recruiting existing staff into the new posts via a job matching process; ring-fenced competition; and internal competition. An external recruitment process has been undertaken for a small number of specialist posts where no suitable internal candidates were found. Surpluses arising from the exercise are being managed robustly via the redeployment strategy. The overall staffing figure in the pre-existing Area and ROM offices prior to restructure was 576. On completion of the restructure, staffing in regional offices will be reduced by a total of 180 at an eventual saving of approximately £10 million.
The current position is shown in the following table.
Region Core regional structure (current state) Core regional structure (authorised establishment figure) East Midlands 22 39 East of England 19 39 London 22 37 North East 25 32 North West 25 44 South East 31 59 South West 17 39 Wales 16 29 West Midlands 28 39 Yorkshire and Humberside 29 39 Total 233 396
There are no plans to recruit any further staff into each office once all the posts are filled.