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Bulletin
Issue 79 26 October 2007

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223/07 Predicting and Understanding the Risk of Re Offending - Prisoner Cohort Study
224/07 DJ’s on Service – Community Sentences Campaign Wins Award
225/07 Issued Recently

223/07 PREDICTING AND UNDERSTANDING THE RISK OF REOFFENDING - PRISONER

COHORT STUDY

The Ministry of Justice Research, Development and Statistics Directorate have published Research Summary 6 -
Predicting and Understanding the risk of reoffending - Prisoner Cohort Study. The study is available on Epic.

Epic: Navigate from Home>News & Comms>News> Predicting and Understanding the risk of reoffending - Prisoner
Cohort Study Research Summary

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224/07 DJ’S ON SERVICE – COMMUNITY SENTENCES CAMPAIGN WINS AWARD

As part of the Community Sentences campaign last year several probation areas were involved in recruiting local
DJs to do unpaid work. Back in the studio the DJs used the experience to highlight the NPS's work with offenders or
to generate a debate with listeners over sentencing. This activity was called DJs on Service and targeted ten
influential local radio stations.

On 24 October DJs on Service won a PR industry PR Week Award in the Public Sector category (beating Norfolk
County Council, the Learning and Skills Council, Westminster City Council and the Department for Education and
Skills). It was also in second place with a “highly commended” for the Broadcast category.

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225/07 ISSUED RECENTLY

Probation Circulars 2007:

PC34 Additional Guidance for End of Custody Licence Issued 26 October

This circular updates the previous guidance on ECL. The key changes from the
original guidance are outlined below and the equivalent Prison Service Instruction
(PSI) is attached for information. The PSI will be issued at the same time as this
circular to ensure a consistent approach between prisons and probation in the
management of ECL.

OASys Messages to Areas – Via Epic

Message 067 07 Release 4.2.2 Issued 24 October

Message 066 07 Use of apostrophe when entering names on OASys Issued 118 October

Message 065 07 4.2.2 Release to pre-release environments Issued 10 October

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Issue 79 UNCLASSIFIED NPS Bulletin

October 2007