May 2011 News Update
31.05.2011

Articles featured in the Probation Association news update this month include:

Value For Money And Balance Is Aim Of New Subscription System
A new formula for calculating subscription levels has been agreed by the Associaiton's Council...

PA Calls On NOMS To Avert Data Storage Disaster
The PA has called on NOMS to immediately address the long-standing problem of insufficient national data storage capacity following reports from trusts that the problem has become business critical...

Probation In Parliament
Chairman Sebert Cox and Chief Executive Chrtistine Lawrie have given evidence to the Justice Select Committee's Inquiry into the Role of the Probaiton Service...

Community Payback Latest
NOMS has confirmed that trusts are legally entitled to set up Special Purpose Vehicles for the delivery of Community Payback - or other probation activities as set out in the Offender Management Act...

Meetings With Private Sector
Meetings have taken place between PA and private providers and other meetings are being scheduled...

Annual McWilliams Probation Lecture
The PA is sponsoring the anual McWilliams Probation Lecture in Cambridge Universoty's Institutue of Criminology on June 22...

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