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Probation Training - Midlands Consortium
The Midlands Consortium is one of nine such Consortia across England and Wales. We:
- Recruit and train the best people possible to become qualified Probation Officers/ Offender Managers.
- Support in-service training for all grades of staff to develop their working practice.
- Offer a wide range of National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs).
- Develop and co-ordinate Probation Service Officer induction and development programmes throughout the region.
- Manage all regional, and some national, tutor training for Accredited Offender Behaviour Programmes.
- On behalf of NOMS manage training for staff who work with sex offenders.
- Develop and deliver a range of leadership and management development training programmes.
The Midlands Consortium also:
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 If you work in the Housing and Hostels sector find out more about Offender and Accommodation Skills Training (OAST).
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What do probation staff do?
- Work with people who have committed different types of offences such as burglary, violence, car crime and sex offences.
- Provide probation supervision, unpaid work, offender behaviour programmes and specialist support services which can stop people committing further offences.
- Prepare prisoners for release, and supervise them on licence afterwards.
- Liaise with victims of serious crime.
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Thinking in Practice Seminars aim to promote thinking and debate about the professional task of supervising offenders and of managing those people who supervise offenders. More about past and future Thinking in Practice Seminars. |
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