Welcome to Cheshire Probation's website

Welcome to Cheshire Probation's website

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Equality Act 2010:  Complying with the Legal Duties
 
The new Equality Act 2010 gives public bodies, such as Cheshire Probation Trust, specific duties to comply with.  One of these duties is to publish information by 31 January 2012 about performance and equality.  Cheshire Probation Trust complies with its specific legal duty to publish the required information and analysis of that data to show how it pays due regard in all its work to:
 
  • Advance equality of opportunity between people from different groups 
  • Eliminate unlawful discrimination, harassment and victimisation
  • Foster good relations between people from different groups
Across: 
 
  • Age
    • Ethnicity
    • Disability
    • Sex
    • Religion or Belief
    • Sexual Orientation
    • Gender Reassignment
    • Pregnancy/Maternity
    • Civil Partnerships/Marriage
    Click here to view Cheshire Probation's Equality Act 2010 Report.
     
    2011 Community Payback Annual Report
     
    The 2011 Community Payback Annual Report is now available.  Click here to download the report and see what work has been carried out in your local community.
     
    Hoax Callers
     
    There have been a number of complaints from local residents of ex-offenders selling products door to door.  They claim to be working on a Probation-approved doorstep selling scheme.  Please note that the Probation Service does not involve offenders in any type of doorstep scheme.  Our advice is not to buy goods from these people.  If you are targeted by someone saying they are part of this scheme, politely refuse the business and advise the Police by ringing the Police Non-Emergency number 101.  A press release has been issued to all local newspapers.  Click here to view the release.
     
    MAPPA Annual Report 2010-11
     
    The Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA) Annual Report for Cheshire is now available.  Click here to view or download. 
     
    John Davidson, Cheshire Probation's Assistant Chief Executive and Chair of the Cheshire, Halton and Warrington Strategic Management Board says, "By working with other key agencies under MAPPA, we are continuing to do all we can to protect the public and reduce re-offending by reducing the risks posed by those offenders who come within the MAPPA process.  Although it is never possible to eliminate risk, I believe that multi-agency arrangements remain the most effective way to manage the most dangerous offenders.  This is vital in providing effective public protection to all our communities". 
     
    Annual Report 2010-11 (Accounts)
     
    Please click here to download a copy of Cheshire Probation's Annual Report 2010-11 (Accounts).
     
     
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    Brief overview of Cheshire Probation
     
    Cheshire Probation Area became a Probation Trust on 1st April 2010.  The move to Trust status co-incides with the implementation of a new Local Delivery Unit (LDU) structure in line with the four Unitary Authorities, with each LDU being coterminous with both its Unitary Authority and Police Base Command Unit.  The new structure will enable greater partnership working with colleagues across the Local Authorities, Police and the Health Authorities that cover Cheshire, Halton and Warrington.
     
    Cheshire Probation is one of 35 Trusts within England and Wales and currently employs around 400 staff, supervising offenders in custody and in the community.
     

    Our key aims are:

    • the protection of the public
    • the reduction in re-offending
    • the rehabilitation of offenders
    • the proper punishment of offenders
    • ensuring offenders’ awareness of the effects of crime on the victims of crime and the public

    We are a key agency within the local criminal justice system and we work in close partnership with other criminal justice agencies such as the Police, the Prison Service, the Courts, Crown Prosecution Service and Victim Support.

    We currently supervise approximately 4,100 offenders at any one time as well as producing just under 4,000 reports for sentencers in the Magistrates' and Crown Courts. We supervised the completion of 170,100 hours of Community Payback by offenders across Cheshire, Halton and Warrington during 2009/10.