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PROBATION
National Probation for England and Wales (Merseyside Area)
The Probation Team
There is a team of one senior probation officer and five probation
officers seconded to the prison from the National Probation Service
for England and Wales (Merseyside Area). In addition, a prisoner
custody officer is attached to the team.
What we do
Much of the work of the probation team involves identifying the
triggers to a prisoners past offences and assessing the risk they
pose both of re-offending and of harm to the public. In practical
terms this means that the Altcourse probation team:
- Contributes to sentence planning
- Prepares parole reports
- Prepares release on temporary licence reports
- Prepares re-categorisation reports
- Prepares home detention curfew assessments
- Contributes to procedures relating to the management of schedule
one offenders (including those set out in Prison Service Order 4400
to monitor letters, phone calls and visits) in order to minimise
the risk these prisoners pose to children.
One of the probation officers works as part of the CARATS (counselling,
assessment, referral, advice and throughcare) team to strengthen
links between the prison drugs service and the sentence planning
process.
The team also work with prisoners to reduce risk through an eight
session alcohol and violent offenders programme.
Where interventions to equip prisoners to avoid offending in the future
cannot be completed whilst they are in custody, the team, in cooperation
with probation colleagues in the home area, seek to ensure that the
necessary work is done as part of their supervision licence.
Contact details
Jack Cunliffe Senior probation officer
Tel 0151 522 2000 (ext 2115) |
