"Please could you inform me of the two roles assigned to a Probation Officer working for the proposed CRC or NPO as part of the Transforming Rehabilitation reforms? What are the job descriptions of each? Who will they be accountable to? Where will they be located? How many offenders will each role supervise? What will be the breakdown in risk/Tiers 1,2,3 or 4? How will risk assessments be reviewed and subsequently how will those offenders be reallocated between the roles? Without this information it will be impossible to make an informed and appropriate decision on selecting a role as they are to date unspecified."
The MoJ Response To Probation Officer.
Thank you for your email of 27 November, in which you asked for the following information from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ):
Please could you inform me of the two roles assigned to a Probation Officer working for the proposed CRC or NPO as part of the Transforming Rehabilitation reforms? What are the job descriptions of each? Who will they be accountable to? Where will they be located? How many offenders will each role supervise? What will be the breakdown in risk/Tiers 1,2,3 or 4? How will risk assessments be reviewed and subsequently how will those offenders be reallocated between the roles? Without this information it will be impossible to make an informed and appropriate decision on selecting a role as they are to date unspecified
Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding to your request, and for any inconvenience this may have caused. Your request has been handled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA).
I can confirm that the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) does not hold the information that you have requested. To establish whether the information was held I conducted a thorough search, and made enquires with the following areas: Rehabilitation Programme and the National Offender Management Human Resources Team.
If the information was held by MoJ it would have to be held by the above mentioned business areas. It may help if I clarify that the information being requested is not held by MoJ because there is no legal or business requirement for MoJ to do so.
Please be advised that the FOIA does not oblige a public authority to create information to answer a request if the requested information is not held. It does not place a duty upon public authorities to answer a question unless recorded information exists. The FOIA duty is to only provide the recorded information held.
You can find out more about information held for the purposes of the Act by reading some guidance points we consider when processing a request for information, attached at the end of this letter.
You can also find more information by reading the full text of the Act, available at http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/36/contents.
By way of explanation, NOMS does not now and will not in future hold central job descriptions for probation officer roles in the NPS or CRCs, but does have national benchmark profiles, which have not been changed for the new organisations. All job descriptions are produced, evaluated and agreed by individual Trusts locally and any changes to jobs for the new organisations will be produced under due process in due course. There are no planned changes to required levels of training and qualifications for probation officer grades within the NPS and CRC's.
Disclosure Log
You can also view information that the Ministry of Justice has disclosed in response to previous Freedom of Information requests. Responses are anonymised and published on our on-line disclosure log which can be found on the MoJ website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice/series/freedom-of-information-disclosure-log
The Probation Officer's Following Comment
"They don't know what we do, what we'll be doing, or who should be doing it. Shrinking responsibility!"
This illustrates the statement which struck me recently on the "On Probation Blog" which said in regards to the privatisation of the Probation Service:
"The real issue, and the cause of the problems the service now experiences is ideology. A much smaller state and hand washing of responsibility"
A Shrinking State! A hand washing of responsibility! The MOJ not knowing what we'll be doing or should be doing!!!
Thank you for your email of 27 November, in which you asked for the following information from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ):
Please could you inform me of the two roles assigned to a Probation Officer working for the proposed CRC or NPO as part of the Transforming Rehabilitation reforms? What are the job descriptions of each? Who will they be accountable to? Where will they be located? How many offenders will each role supervise? What will be the breakdown in risk/Tiers 1,2,3 or 4? How will risk assessments be reviewed and subsequently how will those offenders be reallocated between the roles? Without this information it will be impossible to make an informed and appropriate decision on selecting a role as they are to date unspecified
Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding to your request, and for any inconvenience this may have caused. Your request has been handled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA).
I can confirm that the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) does not hold the information that you have requested. To establish whether the information was held I conducted a thorough search, and made enquires with the following areas: Rehabilitation Programme and the National Offender Management Human Resources Team.
If the information was held by MoJ it would have to be held by the above mentioned business areas. It may help if I clarify that the information being requested is not held by MoJ because there is no legal or business requirement for MoJ to do so.
Please be advised that the FOIA does not oblige a public authority to create information to answer a request if the requested information is not held. It does not place a duty upon public authorities to answer a question unless recorded information exists. The FOIA duty is to only provide the recorded information held.
You can find out more about information held for the purposes of the Act by reading some guidance points we consider when processing a request for information, attached at the end of this letter.
You can also find more information by reading the full text of the Act, available at http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/36/contents.
By way of explanation, NOMS does not now and will not in future hold central job descriptions for probation officer roles in the NPS or CRCs, but does have national benchmark profiles, which have not been changed for the new organisations. All job descriptions are produced, evaluated and agreed by individual Trusts locally and any changes to jobs for the new organisations will be produced under due process in due course. There are no planned changes to required levels of training and qualifications for probation officer grades within the NPS and CRC's.
Disclosure Log
You can also view information that the Ministry of Justice has disclosed in response to previous Freedom of Information requests. Responses are anonymised and published on our on-line disclosure log which can be found on the MoJ website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice/series/freedom-of-information-disclosure-log
The Probation Officer's Following Comment
"They don't know what we do, what we'll be doing, or who should be doing it. Shrinking responsibility!"
"The real issue, and the cause of the problems the service now experiences is ideology. A much smaller state and hand washing of responsibility"
A Shrinking State! A hand washing of responsibility! The MOJ not knowing what we'll be doing or should be doing!!!
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