LATEST NEWS

OFFENDER TEAMS HELP REMOVE ICE AND SNOW

Offenders on Community Payback have been helping Councils by removing ice and snow from high priority areas. See article links below:

Article in Wirral Globe

Article in Southport Visiter

Article in Knowsley Online (second story down)

Article in Liverpool Echo

BOARD MEETINGS

Meetings of the Trust Board are open to the public, and anyone wishing to attend is asked please to notify the Board Secretary giving at least five day's notice. An agenda will be posted onto this site one week prior to the event, and copies of additional papers can be obtained from the Board Secretary on request. Please click here to contact the Board Secretary.

Board meeting dates for 2010 are as follows:

Wednesday, 18th January 2010
Wednesday, 10th March
Wednesday, 21st April
Wednesday, 7th July
Wednesday, 15th September
Wednesday, 20th October
Wednesday, 17th November
Wednesday, 15th December

All meetings are held at 2.00 pm at the following venue:

Merseyside Probation Trust
4th Floor
Burlington House
Crosby Road North
Waterloo
Liverpool
L22 OPJ

BUTLER TRUST AWARDS

Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal presented another prestigious Butler Trust Award to staff from Merseyside Probation Trust on 10th March 2009. The areas has now won nine Butler Trust awards over a three year period. This year the award went to the Sefton Tower Prolific Offender Team, a multi-agency team working to target the most prolific offenders in Sefton.

HRH The Princess Royal is Patron of The Butler Trust, an independent charity which recognises the excellence and innovation of people working with offenders in the UK. Through its Annual Award Scheme and Development Programme, the Trust helps to develop effective care for offenders by:

• identifying and promoting excellence and innovation by Prison and Probation Service and criminal justice social work staff, contractors and volunteers;

• developing and disseminating best practice in the care and resettlement of offenders throughout the UK;

• providing professional and personal development opportunities for award-winning staff.

For more information about the Butler Trust please go to the Butler Trust Website.