Offender Management Act 2007

Elizabeth II – Chapter 21

Author:

Great Britain

Publisher:

TSO (The Stationery Office)

The Offender Management Act received Royal Assent on 26 July 2007 and is designed to reduce re-offending and better protect the public. It provides new arrangements for the provision of probation services and other measures to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of how offenders are managed in custody and the community.

The Act takes away probation boards' exclusive statutory duty to provide probation services and enables the Secretary of State to commission services from the best available provider whether in the public, private, or voluntary sectors. It also enables the Government to focus on delivering the services needed to stop offenders committing further crimes, raising standards and encouraging organisations to work more closely together.

The Act also:

• Enables information to be shared between relevant bodies and persons for offender management purposes.

• Removes some of the inconsistencies between the powers of staff in public and private custodial institutions.

• Reforms existing offences of bringing articles into prison and taking articles out of prison.

• Removes the requirement for the appointment of a prison medical officer.

• Makes technical amendments to enable more efficient management of juvenile offenders sentenced to custody.

• Introduces polygraph testing of sex offenders on licence from a sentence of imprisonment of 12 months or more.

Explanatory Notes have been produced to assist in the understanding of this Act and are available separately as 'Offender Management Act 2007: Elizabeth II – Chapter 21 – Explanatory Notes' (ISBN 0105621072, available below).

Extent	44 pages	ISBN	9780105421078
Size	A4	Price	£13.57
Format	Paperback	Published	07 Aug 2007
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