Chief Executive's Welcome

Welcome to Cumbria Probation Trust's website. Most people are familiar with the term Probation. Few actually know the full extend of our activities. This website seeks to give you reliable information about what we do. Our range of activities may be wider than you thought covering work with victims of crime, work in prisons, and the provision of community payback work as well as the traditional role of supervising offenders �on probation.�

What we do is challenging and demanding for offenders supervision (which really means �conditional liberty�) requires the sacrifice of considerable amounts of time and, for some, turn up to perform days of unpaid work for the benefit of community. At the same time probation staff challenge them about what led to offending and what they can do to change, delivering effective interventions that can help change attitudes, develop skills, and improve social inclusion which are at the core of our skill base.

For dangerous offenders our emphasis is on control and accountability. We do important work with our colleagues in the Police Service and other partners to ensure this partnership working is central to our efforts.

If you have a suggestion where we might get offenders to do their community payback, we are very happy to consider any nominations. If you would like to nominate a project to benefit your community, please contact us.

Finally, you may have read in the media recently that the Secretary of State for Justice intends to push ahead with his plans for reforming Probation at pace. We remain committed to protecting the best interests of communities we work with, offenders and staff within Cumbria Probation Trust.

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Russell Bruce

Interim Chief Executive  

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