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The following news items were published in 2008:
The recently re-designed Parole Board website, which was launched in January 2008, has won the website or microsite of the year category in the prestigious Chartered Institute of Public Relations Excellence Awards for 2008. The award was announced on Monday (15 September) at the CIPR Excellence Awards Dinner held at the London Hilton Hotel on Park Lane.
The Parole Board has welcomed the conclusions and recommendations of the Justice Committee report published today (22 July 2008) with regard to imprisonment for public protection sentences and recalls and the pressure on the Parole Board. Parole Board Chief Executive, Christine Glenn, gave evidence to the Committee in July 2007 with regard to the pressures placed on the Parole Board and how to alleviate them.
The Parole Board today published its Annual Report and Accounts for 2007/08, reporting on its performance against business plan targets, statistics for determinate sentence and indeterminate sentence prisoners and accounts for the year. The report records the work carried out by the Board last year to maintain its high standards of risk assessment during a year in which it faced continued changes to and increases in workload as well as a formal move of sponsorship to the Ministry of Justice.
The Parole Board today published its Business Plan for 2008/09, setting out its aims, objectives and targets for the coming 12 months. The Plan details how the Board will manage the changing nature of its work and workload as it moves towards becoming a fully judicially autonomous court/tribunal and joins the Access to Justice Group of the Ministry of Justice.
The new Parole Board website, which was launched in January 2008, has been short listed for an award in the prestigious Chartered Institute of Public Relations Excellence Awards for 2008 in the website or microsite category.
The Parole Board has welcomed the findings of the National Audit Office report "Protecting the public: the work of the Parole Board", published today (5 March 2008), looking at the work of the Board and its partners in the criminal justice system.
The Parole Board welcomes the review of the parole process for children that has been carried out by the Howard League and published in their report "Parole 4 Kids". We have been working closely with both the Howard League and the Youth Justice Board over recent months to focus on issues concerning young people and parole.
Jack Straw has given the first Sir David Hatch Memorial Lecture on the 17th January 2008 at the Gladstone Library, Whitehall
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