There were 609 referrals for children aged 12-17 to the Probation Service last year, an increase of 10 per cent on the previous year. The service's annual report for 2024 said this figure is the ...

The Probation Service is facing a shortfall of around 10,000 staff to help manage offenders released into the community, it has emerged. Less than 12 months after Labour introduced its early release ...

THE probation service has been praised for the huge efforts it has made to try and help a Dundalk teenager who was facing 95 charges at Dundalk District Court. Wayne Moran (19), 435 Ashling Park, was ...

A series of “very stark” failures by the Probation Service contributed to the murders of a mother and three children by Damien Bendall, a coroner has concluded. Peter Nieto, the senior coroner for ...

A probation service in Lincolnshire has been rated inadequate by inspectors. The East and West Lincolnshire Probation Delivery Unit (PDU) was inspected by HM Inspectorate of Probation in March.

Nine years after legislation required the Probation and Welfare Service to supply reports to the family law courts, the service remains unable to do so because of "substantial under-resourcing", the ...

The probation workers recommended an assessment be made by the Safer Lives program to ascertain if he would be suitable for ...

A Kilcoole woman charged with two public order offences had her case adjourned until next January to see if she cooperate with the Probation Service Sarah Kelly, 9 Druids Brook, Kilcoole, is charged ...

The Probation Service is being ‘set up to fail’ under Labour’s soft justice bill raising fears about monitoring of violent criminals set loose on the streets, Lords warned today. Just a day after ...

Ahead of the CP’s Congress later this month, RICHARD HEBBERT looks at the pressing climate issues humanity faces and their interdependence with capitalism THE probation service is in crisis and is ...

Probation services in the East Midlands have been judged inadequate by government inspectors. A report by His Majesty's Inspectorate of Probation (HMIP), published on Thursday, said work to protect ...