Home Office: Probation (PBN Symbol Series) Files

Files from the Home Office PBN (Probation) symbol series.

They relate to a number of subjects, including the framing of policy and legislation; sponsorship of probation students; financing of area probation services and some capital investment programmes; funding of voluntary after-care organisations; the collation and compilation of statistics on probation and after-care matters; research projects; complaints against probation officers and hostel wardens; and records of various committees and other bodies, including the Departmental Committee to Enquire into the Probation Service (Morison Committee).

The papers are arranged in numerical order by departmental file number by transfer. The inclusion of a date preceding or following a file number (eg. PBN (1961) 1/1/3 or PBN 171/4/5(63) indicates the year in which the file is supposed to have been created, but often it only indicates the year in which the first subfile was raised on a particular subject.

• Home Office, 1782-1782
• Home Office, Criminal and Probation Department, 1962-1964
• Home Office, Probation and After-Care Department, 1964-1982

From 1987 Home Office

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Banking

The Home Office is responsible for the development and co-ordination of probation services in England and Wales. The Probation Division and its successors formulated policy in response to the Morison Committee to Enquire into the Probation Service 1961-62, the Ingleby Committee on Children and Young Persons 1962 and the Criminal Justice Act 1967. As a result of the division's liaison with organisations working in the same field, the files contain some minutes and papers of the London Probation Committee, the Probation Advisory and Training Board (formerly the Probation Advisory Committee), the Advisory Council on the Treatment of Offenders (ACTO) Training Committee, the Probation and Aftercare Research Advisory Committee and the Council for Training in Social Work.