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Prison Officers: Dismissal

Answer

The HM Prison and Probation Service workforce quarterly publication covers staffing information, including the number of leavers by reason for leaving by grade. The latest publication covers data up to 30 September 2023. The figures requested can be found in Table 14b of this publication and have been reproduced below:

Table 1: Band 3-5 Prison Officer dismissals by reason in the 12 months to September 2023

Reason for leaving	Headcount
Dismissal – Unsatisfactory attendance/Medical Inefficiency*	360
Dismissal – Conduct	97
Dismissal – Poor performance	4
Dismissal Other	4
Total	465

*‘Medical Inefficiency’ is a technical term which has been used to ensure the terminology in this response is aligned with the definitions used in published workforce statistics.

Notes to Table 1:

1. Band 3-5 Prison Officers includes Band 3-4 / Prison Officer (incl specialists), Band 4 / Supervising Officer and Band 5 / Custodial Managers.
2. Figures relating to current financial year are provisional, and may be subject to change in future.
3. As with all HR databases, extracts are taken at a fixed point in time, to ensure consistency of reporting. However the database itself is dynamic and where updates to the database are made late, subsequent to the taking of the extract, these updates will not be reflected in figures produced by the extract. For this reason, HR data are unlikely to be precisely accurate.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

827

Session

2023-24

Subjects

Dismissal Prison officers

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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