In a letter to youth justice service (YJS) leaders and youth offending team (YOT) management boards, seen by CYP Now, the departments “acknowledge the challenges many of you are facing with current levels of probation staff vacancies”.
Signed by Steph Roberts-Bibby, chief operating officer at the YJB, Alan Webster, deputy director of the MoJ’s Youth Justice Policy Unit and Andrea Bennett, regional director of the probation service, the letter states that the high level of probation officer vacancies in the youth justice system is “reflective of the current national resource pressures in the probation service”.
It notes that “increasing the recruitment, training and retention of probation staff is not a quick solution,” adding that government is committed to recruiting 1,500 newly qualified probation officers joining the service by March 2024.
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