The Board Sheet

Summer 2010 Stakeholder Edition

Cover story - Parole Board publishes Annual Report and Accounts

The Parole Board has 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. Read more.

Editorial

In my foreword to last year's Annual Report I highlighted two major challenges that faced us as an organisation, lack of judicial resource that was contributing to our rising backlog of cases and the uncertainty over our future status. Read more.

News in brief

The Parole Board published its Business Plan 2010/11 in April following business planning workshops attended by staff, members and the sponsor unit at the Ministry of Justice. Read more.

Policy and practice

The Parole Board Employee Engagement Group recently discussed the issue of what action the Board takes in response to verbal or personal abuse suffered by its staff, in particular over the telephone. Read more.

In the wake of a rising number of cases that were either adjourned or deferred, which at times back in 2006/07 touched one case in every three, the Parole Board undertook some research into what lay behind these events. Read more.

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