Public Protection
Public protection is our number one priority.
Sexual and violent offenders live in all communities and are of no single age, gender, ethnicity or position in society.
What they do have in common is that the offences they commit are unacceptable, often resulting in significant physical and emotional damage. Their identification and conviction is therefore a priority. Once convicted not all offenders go on to commit further offences. However some do. We therefore need to identify those offenders posing a high and very high risk of further serious harm and to take action to prevent them from re-offending. Currently 99.6% of those offenders monitored under MAPPA arrangements do not commit any serious further offences.
Probation staff work closely with the police, prison and representatives from social services, housing and health to manage the risk posed by sexual and violent offenders on release from prison back to the community. This is known as the Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangements - or MAPPA.
Other agencies that co-operate in MAPPA include youth justice teams, Jobcentre Plus, local education authorities, local housing authorities, registered social landlords, social services, strategic health authorities, Care Trusts and NHS Trusts, and electronic monitoring providers.
The arrangements provide a framework for the exchange of information and the pooling of knowledge and expertise between agencies in assessing and agreeing how best to manage dangerous offenders returning to the community either after release from prison or on a community sentence.
See MAPPA page for more information.
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Night Support Worker vacancy
This is an opportunity to join the York and North Yorkshire Probation Trust as a member of the Approved Premises team. Southview Approved Premises provides accommodation for those who are on bail,subject to probation supervision under the terms of a Community Order or on licence following release from prison.
Spring clean for York
York and North Yorkshire Probation Trust’s Community Payback team will be joining forces with City of York Council and local residents next month to carry out a city wide spring clean of York.
Community Payback Annual Report 2012
Offenders worked over 125,000 hours on Community Payback projects last year worth over £930,000* of free labour to communities in York and North Yorkshire, according to the Probation Trust’s third Community Payback annual report published today.
