Thames Valley Probation

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Thames Valley Probation delivers services alongside, and jointly, with partners in the criminal justice system and also with agencies and organisations in the statutory and voluntary sectors. We plan how we can work most effectively together to reduce crime and disorder.

We are involved in the development of strategic community safety initiatives throughout Thames Valley and in campaigns at local level. Our five Local Delivery Units (LDUs) work with many organisations and agencies that provide opportunities for offenders under our supervision to make changes in their lives away from crime and towards their rehabilitation within society.

This co-working approach is planned and achieved through a range of statutory partnerships and formal contracts with other services and agencies in the statutory and voluntary sectors. For example, we share statutory work with the police in leading multi-agency public protection arrangements (MAPPA) for the management of dangerous offenders within the community.

We have contractual partnerships with the six prisons in Thames Valley. Probation staff are based in the prisons where they contribute to the planning of how offenders will serve their time in prison and in planning for their release and supervision under licence in the community after release.

Thames Valley Probation is active in a wide range of inter-agency work for public protection and safe communities. For example, our shared local Integrated Offender Management schemes with the police in Milton Keynes and Slough have targeted persistent offenders and produced clear results in reducing burglary. Police officers and probation officers work together, combining police intelligence and surveillance of known offenders with intensive probation supervision, to tackle an offender's behaviour.

We work in partnerships that support our probation practice by providing specialist work in the following areas:

assessment and treatment for offenders whose offending is linked to their use of alcohol and drugs
employment, education and training assessment and advice to increase offenders' employability
placement of offenders serving Unpaid Work Requirements (Community Payback)
Risk assessment and work with sex offenders.

Community Safety Partnerships

Thames Valley Probation actively contributes through representation on all 17 Community Safety Partnerships, which cover Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Milton Keynes’ local districts and the boroughs and unitary authorities throughout Berkshire. We contributes local knowledge of crime patterns and offending to inform local discussion and local decision-making about how best to tackle and prevent crime. To see a map of how these partnerships fit in with our offices and geographical boundaries, click here.

Other important links:
Crown Prosecution Service

HM Court Service (Crown and Magistrates)

Local Crime: Community Sentence
National Offender Management Service (NOMS)

Ministry of Justice

HM Inspectorate of Probation

Parole Board

HM Prison Service

Prisons and Probation Ombudsman for England and Wales

Probation Association

Probation Chiefs Association

South East Director of Offender Management (NOMS SE)

Thames Valley Police