News
The following news items were published during 2010
The Parole Board today published its Business Plan for 2010/11, setting out its aims, objectives, targets and projected workloads for the coming 12 months. The Plan details how the Board is managing a massive rise in the number of oral hearings needed for indeterminate sentence prisoners and is planning to clear a backlog of outstanding cases that has built up as the resource demands on it have increased.
The Parole Board today published its Annual Report and Accounts for 2009/10, 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 the twin challenges of a growing backlog of cases and uncertainty over its future.