New Chief Executive for Derbyshire Probation Trust

4th Jan, 2012
  Jo Mead was appointed as the new Chief Executive of Derbyshire Probation Trust from 1 January 2012, taking over from Denise White who has retired after a career in probation spanning 35 years. Ms Mead joins us from Lincolnshire County... Click for more...

Award for Employment Team

22nd Nov, 2011
  DPT staff attending Nextstep’s recent annual conference came away with a surprise award.  The Education Training and Employment team received a plaque for getting a “high number of job outcomes for a disadvantaged priority group”.&... Click for more...

Annual Accounts 2010 - 2011

15th Nov, 2011
  Conclusion of 2010/11 Audit of Accounts The Trust's Auditors have completed the audit of the 2010/11 Accounts and an unqualified opinion and the audit certificate was issued on 13th July 2011. On the same date they also issued an unqualifi... Click for more...

MAPPA Annual Report published

27th Oct, 2011
On Thursday, October 27, Derbyshire’s tenth annual Multi-Agency Public Protection Report was published. The 2010/11 report highlights the work which is undertaken through Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA) to protect individuals ... Click for more...

National Excellence Award given to Probation Trusts

24th Oct, 2011
Derbyshire Probation Trust has shared in an award that gives national recognition to the quality of our work. Nationally, the Probation Service has become the first ever public sector organisation to be awarded the British Quality Foundation's Gold ... Click for more...

Alfreton Base closure

10th Oct, 2011
  At the end of September, 2011 the Probation base in Institute Lane, Alfreton closed.  Alfreton had been home to a Probation reporting office from the end of the 1970’s.  It was then located above the NatWest Bank in the High S... Click for more...

Boosting support for female offenders

16th Mar, 2011
Derbyshire Probation has expanded the support available to female offenders.  Whilst women represent only 14 percent of offenders we supervise, they are often amongst the most vulnerable people we deal with. Since July 2010, staff at ... Click for more...

Volunteer Mentors help offenders' employment prospects

16th Mar, 2011
Volunteering to help offenders gain employment can have great benefits for both offender and mentor.  Under the REACH employability project, funded by EU Social Fund cash, Derbyshire Probation is seeking more volunteers to train as mentors to offe... Click for more...

Offenders clear snow at Chesterfield Hospital

21st Dec, 2010
The last thing you want when visiting hospital is to end up in A&E.  After the bad snowfalls in December 2010, frozen slush had made paths around Chesterfield Royal Hospital site dangerous to walk on.  Teams of offenders under Derbysh... Click for more...

2009-10 MAPPA report published

28th Oct, 2010
The ninth annual Derbyshire Multi-Agency Public Protection Report was published onWednesday, 27 October.   The 2009/10 report highlights the work which is undertaken through Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA) to protect indi... Click for more...

Probation supports Community Safety Week

28th Oct, 2010
Derbyshire Probation has provided information displays in libraries across the county this week in support of Community Safety Week.  In keeping with the week's theme of Alcohol Misuse and Anti-Social Behaviour, the information focused on the prog... Click for more...

CHESTERFIELD CP TEAM JOINT WINNER IN COUNTY AWARDS

19th Oct, 2010
CHESTERFIELD CP TEAM AMONGST COUNTY’S FINEST CELEBRATED AT EXCELLENCE AWARDS   Chesterfield CP team shared the stage with the YMCA, whose NE Derbyshire Furniture Project received an award under Derbyshire County Council’s Excellence in t... Click for more...

DERBYSHIRE PROBATION OFFICER TOP IN COUNTRY

19th Oct, 2010
A Probation Officer with Derbyshire Probation Trust has been named Probation Champion of the Year, 2010 by Michael Spurr, Chief Executive Officer of the National Offender Management Service (NOMS). Claire Johnson, based in Derby, won the Public... Click for more...

Top scores in Offender Management report

29th Sep, 2010
Derbyshire Probation has received some of the top scores in the country to date from an indepentant report on Offender Management by Her Majestys INspectorat of Probation. The inspection, part of a three year exercise across all Probation Trusts, ha... Click for more...

Operation Relentless gets underway

29th Sep, 2010
A major campaign to reduce nuisance behaviour and alcohol-related crime was launched across Derbyshire in late September. <:namespace prefix = o /><:namespace prefix = o />  Operation Relentless was a six-week initiative during w... Click for more...

Glossop office closure

2nd Sep, 2010
Our Glossop office will close after business on Thursday 30 September, 2010 as part of our ongoing focus on maintaining an efficient, effective yet viable organisational structure to support our front line service provision. All business f... Click for more...

Intensive Alternative to Custody Pilot

22nd Jun, 2010
Derbyshire Probation's Intensive Alternative to Custody pilot for the government has had a successful second year. Click [here] for more details. Click for more...

The Big Tidy Up

21st Jun, 2010
Chesterfield CP teams help in town's Big Tidy Up.  Click [here] for more information. Click for more...

National Accreditation Renewed

21st Jun, 2010
On 25 May, Derbyshire Probation Trust successfully passed the Matrix Quality Standard Asessment, an accreditation it has held since 2007.  Click [here] for more information. Click for more...

Trust status comes into effect

18th Mar, 2010
On 1 April, 2010, Derbyshire Probation officially gained Trust status.  This legal change brings a number of new opportunities to the Area as well as a number of challenges.      Click for more...