The spring amendment budget ( vårändringsbudgeten) is usually mainly used to tweak or add bits and pieces to Sweden’s main ...

Award-winning Poet Laureate and former probation officer, Simon Armitage, has crafted an ode to those working in the Probation Service ... in their journey out of prison and back into society ...

The Prison and Probation Services are to be merged, Home Secretary David Blunkett announced. A new National Offender Management Service (NOMS) will be set up by June this year, Mr Blunkett said.

“The POA will not add anything as the police are investigating but suffice to say these are concerning times in the prison service ... The Prison and Probation Ombudsman will also investigate ...

A Prison Service spokesperson said ... It would be inappropriate to comment further at this time." The Prison and Probation Ombudsman will also investigate, as is procedure.

A Prison Service spokesman said ... “It would be inappropriate to comment further at this time.” The Prison and Probation Ombudsman will also investigate, as is procedure.