The Wales Training Consortium is one of nine such Consortia across England and Wales which works to deliver a range of training.

The Wales Training Consortium is an association between the four probation areas across Wales.

Together with the 42 probation areas in England and Wales and the National Probation Directorate we form the National Probation Service for England and Wales.

		For further information about the National Probation Service for England and Wales visit www.probation.homeoffice.gov.uk

The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) brings into a single system work done with offenders in prison and those under probation supervision in the community, either on community sentences or following release from custody. At its core is the aim of re-offending and protecting the public.

Central to the operation of NOMS is the role of the offender manager.  NOMS introduces new practices that puts a single offender manager (usually a probation officer) at the centre of co-ordinating all aspects of the sentence from conviction to the end of the sentence, ensuring continuity and consistency. This new approach, and new IT systems supporting it, also ensures that there is no breakdown in communication and that advances made by an individual are built upon and not allowed to be lost as an offender progresses through their sentence.  Offender managers  are also responsible for enforcing conditions and requirements imposed on offenders and taking action to return people to court or prison if they do not comply or if they appear to be becoming an unacceptable risk to the public.

The new system puts probation and offender management at the heart of services for offenders.  Offender managers now manage each case and supervise offenders through the whole of their sentence.

Probation provides many of the specific elements of the sentence, such as a period of unpaid work in the community, or those aspects of a sentence designed to change behaviour such as delivery of an offending behaviour programme or work to reduce dependency on drugs or alcohol.

During the course of their training, trainee probation officers will learn how best to manage medium risk  offenders and those presenting a risk of serious harm,, so that as newly qualified officers they are competent to work with offenders who are assessed as presenting a high risk of harm.

				The National Probation Service is part of the Government's Home Office. The Home Secretary, The Rt. Hon. David Blunkett MP, heads this. For further details of the work of the Home Office visit www.homeoffice.gov.uk

		A Board of Directors oversees the work of the Wales Training Consortium. Board members: Carol Moore - Chair Mr Richard Penn Clifton Robinson Mr Jim McLlwee Ms Caroline Morgan Ms Jane Coates Mr Ian Lankshear Mr Paul Egan - Secretary Mr Mark Potter - Treasurer

Contact details:
4-7 The Broadway
Pontypridd
CF37 1BA

Tel: 01443 494333
Fax: 01443 494285

Email:
walesprobation.consortium@south-wales.probation.gsi.gov.uk