Probation service performance
Statistics relating to the performance of Probation service level metrics in England and Wales.
On 29 April 2024, the Probation service introduced a change in practice known as 'Probation Reset' for selected measures, where probation practitioner engagement is prioritised towards the first two-thirds of an individual's sentence. As a result, data from May 2024 onward have been recorded using a revised 'reset' methodology.
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Judicial engagement (SL001)
Percentage of the Judiciary who are satisfied with probation services in each twelve-month period.
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
69.8%
Data source
The data source for this measure and more detailed information can be found in the Community performance annual publication.
Publication date
Published: 31 July 2025. Next publication: 30 July 2026 9:30am.
Initial appointment for community sentences (SL004)
The percentage of persons under a community sentence who have an in person appointment, either in office or by home visit, arranged to take place no later than 5 business days after sentence.
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
93.8%
Data source
The data source for this measure and more detailed information can be found in the Community performance annual publication.
Publication date
Published: 31 July 2025. Next publication: 30 July 2026 9:30am.
Initial appointment for releases from custody (SL005)
The percentage of persons who have an office or home visit appointment arranged to take place no later than one business day after release. For those released immediately from court following a period of remand, the timescale shall be three business days.
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
95.5%
Data source
The data source for this measure and more detailed information can be found in the Community performance annual publication.
Publication date
Published: 31 July 2025. Next publication: 30 July 2026 9:30am.
Initial sentence plan for community sentences and custodial releases (SL006)
The percentage of persons with a community sentence or a release from custody on licence for whom a sentence plan is completed within 15 business days after attendance at their first appointment.
Please note, due to changes in measures for Probation Reset, the time series for SL006 was broken in May 2024. As such, only one month of data is available for the first quarter in the 2024/25 performance year. This measure has been succeeded by SL006R.
Apr 2025
83.6%
Data source
The data source for this measure and more detailed information can be found in the Community performance annual publication.
Publication date
Published: 31 July 2025. Next publication: 30 July 2026 9:30am.
Initial sentence plan for community sentences and custodial releases for supervised cases (SL006R)
The percentage of persons with a community sentence or a release from custody on licence for whom a sentence plan is completed within 15 business days after attendance at their first appointment.
May 2024 - Mar 2025
86.7%
Data source
The data source for this measure and more detailed information can be found in the Community performance annual publication.
Publication date
Published: 31 July 2025. Next publication: 30 July 2026 9:30am.
Monthly appointments offered (SL007R)
The percentage of individuals in the community and supervised over the whole of the relevant month, who are offered at least one in-person appointment in each calendar month.
Please note, due to changes in measures for Probation Reset, the time series for SL007R was broken in May 2024. As such, only one month of data is available for the first quarter in the 2024/25 performance year. This measure has been succeeded by SL007S.
Apr 2025
87.4%
Data source
The data source for this measure and more detailed information can be found in the Community performance annual publication.
Publication date
Published: 31 July 2025. Next publication: 30 July 2026 9:30am.
Monthly appointments offered for supervised cases (SL007S)
The percentage of individuals in the community and supervised over the whole of the relevant month, who are offered at least one in-person appointment in each calendar month.
Please note that the first datapoint on the chart below represents the percentage taken from 11 months of data, from the Probation Reset in May 2024 to the end of the recording year in March 2025.
May 2024 - Mar 2025
89.7%
Data source
The data source for this measure and more detailed information can be found in the Community performance annual publication.
Publication date
Published: 31 July 2025. Next publication: 30 July 2026 9:30am.
Timely risk management plans (SL010)
The percentage of Recall Part B (Risk Management Plan) documents which are supplied to the Offender Management Public Protection Group within the required timescale of a person's return to custody; to inform about the level of risk and to enable a timely decision about release or ongoing detention to be made.
For the period April 2024 to March 2025, routine data assurance exercises revealed that SL010 did not accurately reflect the timely completion of risk management plans, in any region. As such these data have been removed from this publication.
Jan-Mar 2024
86.3%
Data source
The data source for this measure and more detailed information can be found in the Community performance annual publication.
Publication date
Published: 31 July 2025. Next publication: 30 July 2026 9:30am.
Timely parole reports (SL011)
The percentage of indeterminate and determinate parole assessment reports (PAROM1s) that are sent within the timescale specified by the HMPPS Offender Management and Public Protection Group.
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
82.6%
Data source
The data source for this measure and more detailed information can be found in the Community performance annual publication.
Publication date
Published: 31 July 2025. Next publication: 30 July 2026 9:30am.
Completion of targeted interventions for people convicted of sexual offences (SL012R)
Successful completions of rehabilitative activities, including accredited programmes, structured interventions and the approved suite of probation practitioner toolkits (ASPPT). Where the terminated cases are convicted of a sexual offence.
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
62.8%
Data source
The data source for this measure and more detailed information can be found in the Community performance annual publication.
Publication date
Published: 31 July 2025. Next publication: 30 July 2026 9:30am.
Requirements completed by sentence expiry (SL013)
Percentage of completions of Community Orders and Suspended Sentence Orders including any combination of an Accredited Programme Requirement, a Rehabilitation Activity Requirement or an Unpaid Work Requirement, where those requirements completed successfully.
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
76.3%
Data source
The data source for this measure and more detailed information can be found in the Community performance annual publication.
Publication date
Published: 31 July 2025. Next publication: 30 July 2026 9:30am.
Housed on release from custody (SL014)
The proportion of individuals in settled or temporary accommodation on the night of release from custody.
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
80.4%
Data source
The data source for this measure and more detailed information can be found in the Community performance annual publication.
Publication date
Published: 31 July 2025. Next publication: 30 July 2026 9:30am.
Settled accommodation at 3 months post release from custody (SL015a)
The proportion of individuals in settled accommodation at three months post release for custodial sentences.
Please note, due to changes in measures, the time series for SL015a was broken in April 2024. This measure has been succeeded by SL015Sa.
Jan-Mar 2024
68.1%
Data source
The data source for this measure and more detailed information can be found in the Community performance annual publication.
Publication date
Published: 31 July 2025. Next publication: 30 July 2026 9:30am.
Settled accommodation at 3 months post release for supervised cases (SL015Sa)
The proportion of individuals in settled accommodation at three months post release for custodial sentences.
Please note that the first datapoint on the chart below represents the percentage taken from 11 months of data, from the Probation Reset in May 2024 to the end of the recording year in March 2025.
May 2024 - Mar 2025
75.4%
Data source
The data source for this measure and more detailed information can be found in the Community performance annual publication.
Publication date
Published: 31 July 2025. Next publication: 30 July 2026 9:30am.
Settled accommodation at 3 months post community disposal (SL015b)
The proportion of individuals in settled accommodation at three months post disposal for community sentences.
Please note, due to changes in measures, the time series for SL015b was broken in April 2024. This measure has been succeeded by SL015Sb.
Jan-Mar 2024
84.1%
Data source
The data source for this measure and more detailed information can be found in the Community performance annual publication.
Publication date
Published: 31 July 2025. Next publication: 30 July 2026 9:30am.
Settled accommodation at 3 months post community disposal for supervised cases (SL015Sb)
The proportion of individuals in settled accommodation at three months post disposal for community sentences.
Please note that the first datapoint on the chart below represents the percentage taken from 11 months of data, from the Probation Reset in May 2024 to the end of the recording year in March 2025.
May 2024 - Mar 2025
83.8%
Data source
The data source for this measure and more detailed information can be found in the Community performance annual publication.
Publication date
Published: 31 July 2025. Next publication: 30 July 2026 9:30am.
Employed at 6 weeks post release from custody (SL016)
The proportion of individuals in employment at six weeks after release from custody.
Please note, due to changes in measures for Probation Reset, the time series for SL016 was broken in May 2024. As such, only one month of data is available for the first quarter in the 2024/25 performance year. This measure has been succeeded by SL016R.
Apr 2025
17.7%
Data source
The data source for this measure and more detailed information can be found in the Community performance annual publication.
Publication date
Published: 31 July 2025. Next publication: 30 July 2026 9:30am.
Employed at 6 weeks post release from custody for supervised cases (SL016R)
The proportion of individuals in employment at six weeks after release from custody.
Please note that the first datapoint on the chart below represents the percentage taken from 11 months of data, from the Probation Reset in May 2024 to the end of the recording year in March 2025.
May 2024 - Mar 2025
18.5%
Data source
The data source for this measure and more detailed information can be found in the Community performance annual publication.
Publication date
Published: 31 July 2025. Next publication: 30 July 2026 9:30am.
Employed at 6 months post release from custody (SL017a)
The proportion of individuals in employment at six months post release for custodial sentences.
Please note, due to changes in measures for Probation Reset, the time series for SL017a was broken in May 2024. As such, only one month of data is available for the first quarter in the 2024/25 performance year. This measure has been succeeded by SL017Ra.
Apr 2025
30.1%
Data source
The data source for this measure and more detailed information can be found in the Community performance annual publication.
Publication date
Published: 31 July 2025. Next publication: 30 July 2026 9:30am.
Employed at 6 months post release from custody for supervised cases (SL017Ra)
The proportion of individuals in employment at six months post release for custodial sentences.
Please note that the first datapoint on the chart below represents the percentage taken from 11 months of data, from the Probation Reset in May 2024 to the end of the recording year in March 2025.
May 2024 - Mar 2025
31.8%
Data source
The data source for this measure and more detailed information can be found in the Community performance annual publication.
Publication date
Published: 31 July 2025. Next publication: 30 July 2026 9:30am.
Employed at 6 months post community disposal (SL017b)
The proportion of individuals in employment at six months post disposal for community sentences.
Please note, due to changes in measures for Probation Reset, the time series for SL017b was broken in May 2024. As such, only one month of data is available for the first quarter in the 2024/25 performance year. This measure has been succeeded by SL017Rb.
Apr 2025
43.3%
Data source
The data source for this measure and more detailed information can be found in the Community performance annual publication.
Publication date
Published: 31 July 2025. Next publication: 30 July 2026 9:30am.
Employed at 6 months post community disposal for supervised cases (SL017Rb)
The proportion of individuals in employment at six months post disposal for community sentences.
Please note that the first datapoint on the chart below represents the percentage taken from 11 months of data, from the Probation Reset in May 2024 to the end of the recording year in March 2025.
May 2024 - Mar 2025
44.3%
Data source
The data source for this measure and more detailed information can be found in the Community performance annual publication.
Publication date
Published: 31 July 2025. Next publication: 30 July 2026 9:30am.
Persons engaged (SL020)
Percentage of persons on probation with an overall positive experience of engagement in each survey.
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
71.0%
Data source
The data source for this measure and more detailed information can be found in the Community performance annual publication.
Publication date
Published: 31 July 2025. Next publication: 30 July 2026 9:30am.
Victim satisfaction (SL021)
Percentage of victims surveyed who are satisfied or very satisfied with the service received one month after offender release from custody.
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
84.7%
Data source
The data source for this measure and more detailed information can be found in the Community performance annual publication.
Publication date
Published: 31 July 2025. Next publication: 30 July 2026 9:30am.
POM/COM handover meeting (SL022r)
The percentage of handover meetings arranged and attended between the Prison Offender Manager (POM), Community Offender Manager (COM) and prisoner within one week prior to and six weeks after allocation to the Community Offender Manager, for those with more than 10 months to serve in custody.
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
56.6%
Data source
The data source for this measure and more detailed information can be found in the Community performance annual publication.
Publication date
Published: 31 July 2025. Next publication: 30 July 2026 9:30am.
Pre-release sentence plans for enhanced cases (SL023)
The percentage of persons serving 10 months or more, with a first release from custody on licence where a sentence plan is completed between 12 and 2 weeks before the day of release.
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
37.2%
Data source
The data source for this measure and more detailed information can be found in the Community performance annual publication.
Publication date
Published: 31 July 2025. Next publication: 30 July 2026 9:30am.
Unpaid work assessments (SL026)
The percentage of Unpaid Work Requirements that have had an assessment by the Probation Service completed prior to the first Unpaid Work Session being arranged.
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
85.6%
Data source
The data source for this measure and more detailed information can be found in the Community performance annual publication.
Publication date
Published: 31 July 2025. Next publication: 30 July 2026 9:30am.
Unpaid work starts within 15 business days of sentence (SL027)
The percentage of unpaid work requirements that have had unpaid work arranged by the probation service to start within 15 business days of the sentence date of that requirement.
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
71.1%
Data source
The data source for this measure and more detailed information can be found in the Community performance annual publication.
Publication date
Published: 31 July 2025. Next publication: 30 July 2026 9:30am.
Unpaid work stand downs (SL028)
The percentage of Unpaid Work sessions lost through stand downs (sessions cancelled on the day) where the Unpaid Work session has been arranged by the Region.
SL028 measures the percentage of unpaid work appointments which are cancelled on the same day as the appointment was arranged to take place. Therefore, a decrease in the proportion of unpaid work stand downs is a positive outcome and indicates an improvement in performance.
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
1.3%
Data source
The data source for this measure and more detailed information can be found in the Community performance annual publication.
Publication date
Published: 31 July 2025. Next publication: 30 July 2026 9:30am.
Unpaid work completions within 12 months (SL029)
The percentage of successful completions of unpaid work requirements within 12 months of the original sentence date where the person is subject to a community order, suspended sentence order or supervision default order that contains an unpaid work requirement.
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
63.1%
Data source
The data source for this measure and more detailed information can be found in the Community performance annual publication.
Publication date
Published: 31 July 2025. Next publication: 30 July 2026 9:30am.
Accredited programme starts (targeted) (SL031)
The percentage of Accredited Programmes started by eligible persons following sentence or release from custody, including those Accredited Programmes delivered as Requirements attached to a Rehabilitation Activity Requirement, as a Licence Condition or delivered during a period of Post Sentence Supervision.
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
86.1%
Data source
The data source for this measure and more detailed information can be found in the Community performance annual publication.
Publication date
Published: 31 July 2025. Next publication: 30 July 2026 9:30am.
Accredited programme completions (targeted) (SL033)
The percentage of positive completions by eligible persons of Offender Behaviour Accredited Programmes delivered as Requirements, attached to a Rehabilitation Activity Requirement, as a Licence Condition or delivered during a period of Post Sentence Supervision.
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
52.5%
Data source
The data source for this measure and more detailed information can be found in the Community performance annual publication.
Publication date
Published: 31 July 2025. Next publication: 30 July 2026 9:30am.
Recording protected characteristics (targeted) (SL040R)
The proportion of cases where Protected Characteristics are recorded in National Delius.
Please note, due to changes in measures, the time series for SL040R was broken in April 2024. This measure has been succeeded by SL040U.
Jan-Mar 2024
99.2%
Data source
The data source for this measure and more detailed information can be found in the Community performance annual publication.
Publication date
Published: 31 July 2025. Next publication: 30 July 2026 9:30am.
Recording protected characteristics for supervised cases (SL040U)
The proportion of cases where Protected Characteristics are recorded in National Delius.
Please note that from April 2024, recording protected characteristics (SL040R) was revised to SL040S then SL040T to include disability recording, however in March 2025 changes in the probation case management system removed this functionality, and the measure became SL040U.
The first datapoint on the chart below represents the first month of data for SL040U, from March 2025.
Mar 2025
99.2%
Data source
The data source for this measure and more detailed information can be found in the Community performance annual publication.
Publication date
Published: 31 July 2025. Next publication: 30 July 2026 9:30am.