Guidance: Probation Professional Register policy framework

This policy framework sets out the requirements and guidance for probation qualified staff around professional registration, probation professional registration standards and loss of authority to practice.

If you are employed in a role where there is an essential requirement to have the probation officer qualification as set out in your job description or a probation services officers employed by HMPPS working in sentence management, court or approved premises and have completed a recognised qualification or qualification alignment process set out in Statutory Guidance, you are required to maintain and renew your registration.