Delivering Interventions

Interventions is the part of the National Probation Service that addresses offending behaviour.  Interventions covers three main aspects of this:

1. punishment (unpaid work and curfew orders)
2. rehabilitation (programmes)
3. public protection (electric monitoring, approved premises and programmes for sex offenders and high risk offenders)

In order for re-offending to be reduced, it is necessary for different interventions to be put in place together.

'What Works' is an evidence based approach that the National Probation Service have used since 1998.  Recent evidence shows that when interventions are used to address a range of offending-related needs, they can result in reduced re-offending rates which is one of the National Probation Service's main aims.