Recruitment Marketing Agency for MoJ

In the face of a rapidly upturned labour market, staff shortages in many sectors and a private sector that can outmanoeuvre us on pay, we are looking to increase prison and probation staffing levels further.

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.

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 Covid-19.