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National Probation Service

Bulletin
Issue 73 14 September 2007

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194/07 Offender Management Act 2007 – Explanatory Notes

195/07 Offender Management Phases I Stocktake and Phase II Consultations
196/07 Recent Publications
197/07 Events
198/07 Issued Recently

194/07 OFFENDER MANAGEMENT ACT 2007 – EXPLANATORY NOTES

Explanatory notes to the Offender Management Act have been published. These are designed to assist anyone
reading the Act, with detailed explanations of the measures now in statute.

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195/07 OFFENDER MANAGEMENT PHASES I STOCKTAKE AND PHASE II

CONSULTATIONS

In April and May 2007, NOMS conducted a stocktake in probation areas to assess the progress of phase I of
offender management. At the same time, around 500 staff from the prison and probation services and members of
the regional implementation groups contributed to a series of consultations on the implementation of phase II.

Full reports have been written of the stocktake and consultations. Detailed findings from both are being used to
inform the strategic review of offender management that NOMS is currently undertaking.

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Contact: Karen.MacLeod6@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk or 020 7217 2082

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196/07 RECENT PUBLICATIONS

NPS Head of Internal Audit Annual Report 2006/07 – Published September 2007

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197/07 EVENTS

Prisons and Beyond – drug treatment in custody,

A conference organised by NOMS Prison Drug Strategy Team, in association with the Home Office, Federation of
Drug & Alcohol Professionals (FDAP), ADFAM (Families, Drugs and Alcohol) and the European Association for the
Treatment of Addiction (EATA) will be held in Leicester on 11-12 October 2007.

The conference focuses on drug treatment services in custody and timely effective continuity of care after release,
and is targeted at frontline staff and managers in prisons, probation, criminal justice integrated teams and the wider
criminal justice field.

FURTHER INFORMATION:
For more information and a booking form visit: www.fdap.org.uk
Venue: Ramada Hotel, Leicester
Date: 11–12 October 2007
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19807 ISSUED RECENTLY

Probation Circulars 2007:

PC32 Management of Foreign National Prisoners: Licences, bail Hearings, Issued 14 September
Releases from Immigration Detention and Deportation

This Circular complements revised instructions which have been issued to

caseworkers in the Border and Immigration Agency’s Criminal Casework
Directorate (CCD) setting out a requirement to inform offender managers in all
cases in which FNPs, subject to a custodial sentence of 12 months or more; or
where they were sentenced to shorter periods adding up to 12 months or more; or
where they are a Young Adult Offender aged between 18 and 22 years and subject
to supervision, are released from immigration detention in an Immigration Removal
Centre or from detention in prison or directly from an AIT hearing.

Procedures for FNPs who are no longer subject to a licence are summarised in
Section 4. Section 6, together with annexes A and B, provides a revised proforma
and guidance for the provision of information to immigration bail hearings at AITs
(Note that when the proforma is received from CCD it will be AT compliant. Work is
being done at the moment to make it so. This may mean the form received differs
in appearance from the version attached to this PC – the content however will be

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the same). Section 10 outlines that CCD case workers are required to inform
offender managers in all cases where an FNP is deported or removed from the UK.

PC31 Implementation of Provisions of Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 Issued 6 September

PC30 Health and Safety Considerations when Delivering Unpaid Work Issued 3 September

OASys Messages to Areas – Via Epic

Message 061 07 Logging Incidents Issued 3 September

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