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Homelessness is directly linked to reoffending, delegates heard at a lunchtime seminar hosted by the Probation Board for Northern Ireland.

Cheryl Lamont, chief executive of the Probation Board for Northern Ireland (PBNI), has been named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. The probation chief was recognised in the New Year Honours list for services to criminal justice.

Criminal justice stakeholders from north and south of the border will meet in Belfast today to share practice on how to reduce re-offending by adopting a "trauma-informed approach". The event, hosted jointly by the Probation Board for Northern Ireland (PBNI) and the Irish Probation Service at the Pa

A new mentoring service aimed at helping to resettle people in the community after their release from custody has been established by the Probation Board for Northern Ireland and NIACRO.

The Probation Board for Northern Ireland is seeking the public’s views on how to help shape the future of probation services in Northern Ireland. The consultation, now open until October, is part of the development of PBNI's Corporate Plan for 2020-23, which will set out the strategic directio

The Probation Board for Northern Ireland has unveiled new offices in Coleraine to support its work guiding the rehabilitation of reintegration of local people on community sentences back into the community.

A Northern Ireland expert in offender rehabilitation has won recognition from the British Psychological Society (BPS) for her work on problem-solving courts. Dr Geraldine O'Hara, director of rehabilitation at the Probation Board for Northern Ireland (PBNI), has been granted the BPS Award for Innovat

Dr Geraldine O'Hare, director of rehabilitation at the Probation Board for Northern Ireland, writes on the success of the Enhanced Combination Order pilot. For the past four years, the Probation Board for Northern Ireland has been piloting an intensive community sentence called ‘The Enhanced C