Offenders supervised by the Probation Service, England and Wales
Offenders the Probation Service supervised in England and Wales at the end of each quarter, in all, under court orders and before or after release from prison, from the Ministry of Justice's offender management statistics.
All supervision
241,119
30 Jun 2026 · 111,955 under court orders and 132,084 before or after release
Verified against source, 8 November 2026, 13:37 UTC- All supervision
- All court orders
- All pre- and post-release supervision
Source: Ministry of Justice. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data table
5 periods, newest first
| Period | All supervision | All court orders | All pre- and post-release supervision |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 Jun 2026 | 241,119 | 111,955 | 132,084 |
| 31 Mar 2026 | 258,332 | 114,923 | 148,984 |
| 31 Dec 2025 | 248,568 | 111,226 | 142,486 |
| 30 Sep 2025 | 246,502 | 110,167 | 141,329 |
| 30 Jun 2025 | 244,209 | 108,681 | 140,344 |
Source and licence
- Publisher
- Ministry of Justice
- Check it yourself
- https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0 – Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Retrieved
- 8 November 2026, 13:17 UTC
- Raw files fetched
- https://www.gov.uk/api/content/government/statistics/offender-management-statistics-quarterly-april-to-june-2026SHA-256 a2384d26aade92a2e9b0823db8096492dd41c5755a17d06a98e0221c2c50e421 · 19,716 bytes
- https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6ae14201e4367e5c8b0467d8/probation-Apr-to-Jun-2026.odsSHA-256 7462fe57f2fdceaa9824f2c769c8c63459c1412abd73a3a8e2bbc568b94ca7d9 · 64,857 bytes
Verification
Verified against source, 8 November 2026, 13:37 UTC Run at 8 November 2026, 13:37 UTC; 15 of 15 figures matched the live source.
| Result | Check | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Pass | Provenance recorded | Ministry of Justice; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-11-08T13:17:44Z; 2 raw file(s) |
| Pass | Raw files match recorded SHA-256 | 2 of 2 files intact |
| Pass | Re-parsing raw files reproduces figures | 15 of 15 figures and the headline reproduced; the meta's accreditation and breaks match |
| Pass | Figures are finite numbers | 15 figures, 0 invalid |
| Pass | Live source matches every figure | 15 of 15 figures match exactly after downloading 2 source file(s) again (2 byte-identical); the headline matches; the meta's accreditation and breaks match |
| Pass | GOV.UK table is current | latest period 2026-06-30 ended 131 days before retrieval (limit 200), from Probation: April to June 2026 |
| Pass | Table 6.8 gives the latest quarter's totals | 3 of 3 figures match Table 6.8's England and Wales row for 2026-06-30 |
| Pass | Males and females make up no more than all | 15 of 15 cases of the dates' males and females in Table 6.6b and 6.6c come to no more than all in 6.6a, which also counts people whose sex is not recorded |
| Pass | Table 6.7a's community orders are Table 6.6a's | 5 of 5 cases of the dates' community orders by offence in Table 6.7a come to Table 6.6a's |
| Pass | Table 6.8's regions make up England and Wales | 3 of 3 cases of Table 6.8's columns read have regions, the National Security Division among them, that come to England and Wales within the 1 the Ministry of Justice's own table leaves within 1 (1 exactly) |
| Pass | Source page answers | https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly – HTTP 200 |
Notes
- People supervised by the Probation Service on the last day of each quarter: under a community order or a suspended sentence order, before release from prison or after it on licence or post-sentence supervision. Someone under more than one kind of supervision counts once in all supervision, so the kinds do not add up to it.
- From 11 May 2026, under the Sentencing Act 2026, no new post-sentence supervision was given to adults and every existing requirement for them ended, as the Ministry of Justice's note 54 says, so post-release supervision falls from June 2026.
- The Ministry of Justice marks a break in the series at 31 March 2026, when a new data pipeline and method began; figures from then on are not like for like with those before, and it gives no change across the break.
- The Ministry of Justice publishes these as accredited official statistics.