Recruitment Marketing Agency for MoJ

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In the face of a rapidly upturned labour market, staff shortages in many sectors and a private sector that can outmanoeuvre us on pay, prison and probation staffing is approaching dangerously low levels. This is made more acute by government commitments on prison expansion and high staff attrition levels. By April 2023, approximately 15% of prisons are expected to have less than 80% of the prison officer and/or Operational Support Grade (OSG) staff they need. For the Probation Service, 33% regions have less than 80% of the staff they need. MoJ's Outcome Delivery Plan 2021/22 sets out the government's ambition to deliver 20,000 additional prison places by the mid-2020s. This also has implications for the Probation Service, which needs the workforce in place to manage the resulting increased numbers of prison leavers through the probation system. Having enough probation officers and other probation service staff is vital to ensure that the Probation Service is able to fully implement its unified Target Operating Model and to meet its obligations on protection of the public and reducing reoffending. We now have challenging targets in place, including to support the recruitment of around 3,900 new staff into the probation service in 23/24 through marketing activity. Numbers are expected to be similar or greater in future years. In addition, having enough magistrates is essential to achieving the government's commitments on delivering swift access to justice. On 24 January 2022, the MoJ launched a new magistrate recruitment campaign and announced its ambition to recruit 4,000 magistrates to help the court system recover from

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