Leicestershire's probation service has been rated 'inadequate' for the second time in three years. Inspectors raised a number ...

The probation service in Leicestershire and Rutland has been rated "inadequate" for the second time in three years following ...

Exclusive: ‘Vital window’ to boost probation workforce before prison reforms put huge pressure on service already in chaos, says union chief ...

Conner Marshall was murdered by David Braddon at Trecco Bay caravan park in Porthcawl, when the killer was on parole for drug ...

The reality is that probation, in its current form, isn’t working. It cannot continue as a Civil Service agency run through a prison-focused HMPPS.

PROBATION staff have been told not to use the phrase chemical castration in conversations with paedophiles and sex offenders in case it upsets them. Officers have been called into briefings this ...

Karl Wilson, 29, who was weeks away from his release date, told Manchester Evening News: “The probation officer didn't know what was going on. “They were in two minds, do I find a place ...

“Reducing the number of sentences under 12 months will free up probation staff to focus more on effective rehabilitation. “This should also mean far fewer women are sent to prison in future as they’ve ...

Probation officers are allowed to log in from the living ... some of the 1,700 prisoners being released yesterday from UK jails would reoffend and end up back behind bars. Groups of inmates ...