Probation Officers
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of probation officers had a caseload of (a) above 30, (b) above 40, (c) above 50 and (d) above 60 in (i) 2010, (ii) 2014, (iii) 2019 and (iv) 2023.
Answered by Sir Nicholas Dakin
Caseload data for Probation Officers is unavailable pre-unification of the Probation Service (June 2021). Caseload data for the service as a whole is published for earlier periods (Offender management statistics quarterly - GOV.UK) but is not broken down by which Probation Service grade delivers it.
As of 30 June 2023, the proportion of Probation Officers with a caseload above 30, 40, 50 and 60 is:
Percentage of total POs | |
a. caseload above 30 | 52.7% |
b. caseload above 40 | 14.9% |
c. caseload above 50 | 2.3% |
d. caseload above 60 | 0.5% |
i) Dataset as of 30 June 2023 from the Workload Measurement Tool (WMT). Data has been taken as of a single day in 2023 and caseload per officer is likely to fluctuate across the year.
ii) For caseloads of less than 30, the percentage of total Probation Officers is 47.3%
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