6 Official goal
The Parole Board is an impartial court-like physique which makes judicial choices by danger assessing eligible prisoners to determine whether or not they are often safely launched into the group; defending the general public is the Board’s primary precedence when making parole choice. It was established in 1968.
7Â Staffing
Parole Board members are people appointed to evaluate the suitability of prisoners for launch again into the group. These members make choices on whether or not prisoners might be safely launched to serve the rest of their sentences locally. Within the UK, appointments to the Parole Board are made by Ministers beneath Schedule 19 of the Legal Justice Act 2003. There have been 322 members final yr (DOWN from 343 in 2023.24) and 245 employees (UP from 220 within the earlier yr).
8Â Inclusivity
18.1% of Parole Board members are from an ethnic minority, up from 17.6% in 2023/24.
9Â Ready for parole
Originally of 2023/24 the oral listening to queue reached a excessive of two,871 prisoners. Originally of this reporting yr, 2024/25, this decreased to 1,536. Over the course of the yr, the queue has fluctuated based mostly on the demand for an oral listening to. The 2024/25 yr ended with simply over 2,000 prisoners awaiting an oral listening to date.
10Â Charges to parole members
Half-time members aren’t workers of the Parole Board, they’re appointees. They’re paid a price for every service they carry out for the Parole Board. The best paid member obtained £192,462 in 2024/25. The median quantity obtained was between £35,000 and £39,999.
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