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Prisons: Offender Managers

Volume 708: debated on Thursday 5 March 2009

Question

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To ask Her Majesty's Government how many offender managers are in post in the Prison Service; and what are their maximum and average case-loads. [HL1584]

Offender managers are Probation Service staff who are probation officers, senior practitioners, senior probation officers and professional development assessors. Latest available figures are that there are 508, full-time-equivalent, offender managers working within Prison Service establishments. Information on the maximum and average case loads is not available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost by means of a manual survey.