Our Organisation

The Service in Lancashire is structured and managed to deliver these main areas of probation work:

Serving the Courts:

• Courts Reports - assessment of people charged with committing an offence and giving a full report to judges and magistrates to help their decisions. Probation enforces Community Orders imposed on offenders by the Courts.

Managing Offenders:

• Enforcement - enforcing Court Orders and Licences upon release from prison
• What Works - using effective methods that are proven to reduce re-offending
• Community Orders - supervising offenders subject to Orders imposed on offenders by the Courts
• Programmes - working with offenders, tackling their offending behavour and to rehabilitate them to law-abiding lives
• Hostels - providing extra supervision for people on bail or subject to an Order or Licence condition to live in a supervised hostel in the community
• Prisons and Resettlement - working with offenders in prison and leading up to and after their release
• Curfews - assessment of offenders` to wear an electronic `tag` as a way to monitor and restrict freedom in order to reduce likelihood of re-offending.
• Specialist services - working with offenders to steer away from crime and towards job skills, access to basic skills training and education, advice on housing, debt and specialist help and treatment for drug misuse, partnership contracts.
• Operational Support Services - finance, administration, Information management, personnel, staff development and training, communications etc.