The role of the Probation Service – Justice Committee

The latest from the Justice Select Committee ‘The Role of the Probation Service’.

‘In order to deliver effective and sustainable intensive community sentencing, the Probation Service must be resourced and supported appropriately. The prison population is at an all time high and with the stringent financial savings which are to made to cut the country’s deficit, it is critical that Probation and the services it delivers remain intact and strengthened if the government are to be able to reduce the prison population safely and appropriately…‘