APPENDIX 33
Supplementary note by Mr Graham W Smith,
HM Chief Inspector of Probation
EXTRACT FROM A LETTER TO THE CLERK OF THE
COMMITTEE
Thank you for your letter dated 10 June seeking
further written evidence for the Committee. I enclose some information
which provide examples of the kind of league tables HMIP produces.
At this time we have not produced a league table of all the 54
probation services in relation to national standards. This is
mainly because of the very large number of standards and probation
services which would make the production of such league tables
complex.
We therefore produce on an annual basis comparative
data gathered from services inspected during the year which are
then regarded as the baselines against which each subsequent area
is judged. Therefore in each area inspection the local probation
services performance against the national standards are compared
with the national figures as a whole.
the home affairs committee327
In addition in each of the thematic inspections
where national standards apply, we produce league tables of all
the probation areas inspected and their comparative performance
against the relevant national standards.
In order to assist the Committee, I enclose
the most recent national aggregated standards performance (Annex
A) and extracts from the recently published report of a thematic
inspection on the Work of the Probation Service with Drug Misusers
(1997) (Annex B*[93]),
more limited league tables from our recently produced (April 98)
report on the Role of the Probation Service in Protecting the
Public from Sex Offenders (Annex C*) and the short report in full
on Community Service and Compliance with National Standards (Annex
D*).
Graham W Smith
18 June 1998
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