Guidance

Statutory Guidance: Core probation roles and qualification requirements

This guidance sets out the key minimum qualifications required to perform core probation roles.

Applies to England and Wales

Documents

Statutory Guidance: Executive Summary

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Details

The Probation Service plays a critical, challenging role in public protection and reducing reoffending, managing a diverse offender cohort encompassing offenders assessed as posing a low risk of harm through to those who pose the highest risk to the public. Given the important, demanding nature of the organisation’s work, it is essential that staff in core Probation Service roles either directly managing offenders and the risk they pose, or directly supervising and signing off such work, are equipped with the necessary qualifications to fulfil their challenging remit.

This guidance builds on various strands of work undertaken by HMPPS, by setting out the key minimum qualifications required to perform core probation roles.

Updates to this page

Published 30 March 2022

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