A to Z – acronyms
We try to keep acronyms to a minimum here on the Hub. We know that some slip through the net and they are often used elsewhere, so here’s a glossary to hopefully help you navigate them:
A
AAMR | Alcohol Abstinence and Monitoring Requirement |
ABH | Actual Bodily Harm |
ABPO | Association of Black Probation Officers |
ACAS | Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service |
ACPCs | Area Child Protection Committees |
ACC | Accrual |
ACR | Automatic conditional release (from prison) OR Accrual |
ACO | Assistant Chief Officer |
ADP | Anti-Discriminatory Practice |
AFI | Area For Improvement |
AOABH | Assault Occasioning Actual Bodily Harm |
AP | Accredited Programme OR Approved Premises OR Accounts Payable |
APS | Achieving Peaceful Solutions |
AR | Accounts Receivable |
ARO | Alcohol Related Offending |
ART | Aggression Replacement Training |
ASBO | Anti-Social Behaviour Order |
ASRO | Addressing Substance Related Offending Programme |
AT | Account Team |
ATL | Account Team Leader |
ATR | Alcohol Treatment Requirement |
B
BACS | Bank Automated Clearing System |
Bail Information | A service by NPS to the courts, to aid decisions on application for bail |
BASS | Bail Accommodation and Support Services |
BAU | Business As Usual |
BBR | Building Better Relationships |
BCST | Basic Custody Screening Tool |
BIO | Bail Information Officer |
BM | Business Manager |
BME | Black and Minority Ethnic |
BNM | Becoming New Me |
BP | Business Partner |
Breach | The process of returning an offender to court or to custody |
BSC | Business Strategy & Change |
BSD | Breach summons date |
BSR | Building Skills for Recovery |
BU | Business Unit |
BWF | Black Workers’ Forum |
C
C&D | Crime and Disorder |
C.Ct | Crown Court |
CA | Case Administrator |
CAB | Citizen’s Advice Bureau |
CAFCASS | Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service |
CALM | Control Anger Learn Management |
CARATS | Counselling Assessment Referral Advice Throughcare Service |
CAS | Case Allocation System |
CBF | Competency Based Framework |
CCG | Clinical Commissioning Group |
CCLO | Crown Court Liaison Officer |
CCT | Crisis Co-ordination Team |
CDEL | Expenditure Limit |
CDO | Court Duty Officer |
CDRP | Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership |
CDT | Community Drug Team |
CEM | Communication, Engagement and Marketing (Team) |
CFO | Chief Financial Officer |
CI | Continuous Improvement |
CIPFA | Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy |
CJ | Criminal Justice |
CJA | Criminal Justice Act |
CJS | Criminal Justice System/Service |
CO | Community Order |
COP | Close of Play |
CoVAID | Control of Violence for Angry Impulsive Drivers programme |
CP | Community Payback |
CPN | Community Psychiatric Nurse |
CPO | Custody Probation Officer |
CPS | Crown Prosecution Service |
CRC | Community Rehabilitation Company |
CRISSA | Check in, Review, Implement, Summary, Set Tasks and Appointment |
CRS | Commissioned Rehabilitative Services |
CSB | Cognitive Skills Booster (Programme) |
CSOG | Community Sex Offenders Group Programme |
CSP | Community Safety Partnership |
CT | Counter Terrorism |
Curfew Order | A sentence available to courts as part of a Community Order |
CVS | Council for Voluntary Service |
D
D and D | Drunk and Disorderly |
DA | District Audit/District Auditor |
DAPP | Diversity Awareness Prejudice Pack |
DAR | Drug Abstinence Requirement |
DASAR | Domestic Abuse Specified Activity Requirement |
DAT | Drug Action Team |
DATL | Directorate Account Team Leade |
Day 1 | June 26, 2021 |
DBC | Development and Business Change Group (NPS) |
DCR | Discretionary Conditional Release (from prison) |
DD | Deputy Director |
DDA | Disability Discrimination act |
DDC | Deputy Director of Custody (HMPS) |
Delius | Probation case management system |
DfE | Department for Education |
DHR | Domestic Homicide Review |
DIDs | Drink Impaired Drivers Programme |
DIP | Drug Intervention Programme |
DipPS | Diploma in Probation Studies |
DipSW | Diploma in Social Work |
DLNR | Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire & Rutland |
DM | District Manager OR Diary Manager |
DoH | Department of Health |
DPA | Data Protection Act |
DR | Dependency Recovery |
DRR | Drug Rehabilitation Requirement – part of a community order |
DS | Discretionary Services |
DSA | Driving Standards Agency |
DSE | Display Screen Equipment |
DSPD | Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder |
DTM | Divisional Training Manager |
DTO | Detention and Training Order |
E
E3 | Effectiveness |
E&S | Employment and Skills |
ECAR | Engage and Change Activity Requirement |
EEM | European Excellence Model |
EFQM | European Foundation for Quality Management |
Entitlement | For offenders who have committed an acquisitive offence |
EM | Electronic Monitoring OR East Midlands |
EPF | Effective Proposal Framework |
EPP | Effective Probation Practice |
EoE | East of England |
EQuiP | Excellence and Quality in Processes |
e-OASys | Electronic Offender Assessment System |
ERG | Extremism Risk Guidance |
ERS | Extremism Risk Screening |
ETE | Education, Training, Employment |
ETE | Employment Training and Education |
ETS | Enhanced Thinking Skills |
F
FADA | Female Aggression and Domestic Abuse (Specified Activity Requirement) |
FAQs | Frequently Asked Questions |
FBD | Finance Benefit and Debt |
FBP | Finance Business Partner |
FDR | Fast Delivery Report |
FFS | Fee for Service |
FFU | Fee for Use |
FM&C | Financial Management & Control |
FM | Facilities Management |
FMB | Functional Mail Box |
FMHP | Forensic Mental Health Practitioner |
FNO | Foreign National Offenders |
FOIA | Freedom of Information Act |
FS | Funding Source |
FTA | Failure To Attend |
FTR | Failure To Report |
G
GBH | Grievous Bodily Harm |
GMPF | Greater Manchester Pension Fund |
GL | Greater London OR General Ledger |
GLD | Government Legal Department |
GMPS | Greater Manchester Pension Scheme |
GPC | Government Procurement Card |
GSI | Government Secure Intranet |
H
H&S | Health & Safety |
HDC | Home Detention Curfew |
HERM | H Drive |
HII | Health Identities Intervention |
HMCTS | Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunal Service |
HMIP | Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Probation or Prisons |
HMP | Her Majesty’s Prison |
HMPPS | Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service |
HMPS | Her Majesty’s Prison Service |
HO | Home Office |
HoOp | Head of Operations |
HPT | Homelessness Prevention Team |
HR | Human Resources |
HRBP | Human Resources Business Partner |
HSE | Health & Safety Executive |
I
IA | Information Assurance |
IAC Team | Intensive Alternative to Custody Team |
IAG | Information, Advice and Guidance |
I-AM | Identity, Adulthood and Maturity |
IAPS | Interim Accredited Programme Software |
ICO | Intensive Community Order |
IDAP | Integrated Domestic Abuse Programme |
IIP | Investors in People |
IMR | Internal or Individual Management Review |
IOM | Integrated Offender management |
IPIF | Individualised Performance Indicator Framework |
IPP | Indeterminate Public Protection (sentence) |
IRR | Individual Referral Record |
IR-SC | Improving Relationships – Supporting Change |
IS/IT | Information Systems / Information Technology |
ISOSAR | Internet Sexual Offending Specified Activity Requirement |
I-SOTP | Internet Sex Offenders Treatment Programme |
ISP | Initial Sentence Plan |
J
JNC | Joint Negotiating Committee |
JNCC | Joint Negotiation and Consultative Committee |
JP | Justice of the Peace |
K
KPI | Key Performance Indicator |
KSS | Kent, Surrey and Sussex |
L
LA | Local Authority |
LAA | Local Area Agreement |
LASPO | Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 |
LCCS | |
LCJB | Local Criminal Justice Board |
LCRB | London Crime Reduction Board |
LDU | Local Delivery Unit |
LED | Licence Expiry Date |
LGPS | Local Government Pension Scheme |
LIAP | Low Intensity Alcohol Programme |
Licence | Sets the conditions for release from a custodial sentence |
LSCB | Local Safeguarding Children Board |
M
MAESM | Multi Agency Extremism Screening Meeting |
MAPPA | Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements |
MAPPP | Multi Agency Public Protection Panel |
MARAC | Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conference |
MARAP | Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Panel |
MASH | Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hubs |
MOJ | Ministry of Justice |
MOOAA | Manchester Management of Offenders and Assessment Audit |
MOPAC | Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (London) |
My Services | Website to find instructions for tasks and forms (HR/Finance) |
N
NACRO | National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders |
NAO | National Audit Office |
NAPO | National Association of Probation Officers |
ND | New Direction |
nDelius | Browser based, case management system |
N/G | Not Guilty |
NGO | Non Governmental Organisation |
NI | National Indicator |
NJC | National Joint Council |
NNC | National Negotiating Council |
HMPPS | Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service |
NPCC | National Police Chiefs’ Council (formerly ACPO) |
NPRIE | National Probation Research and Information Exchange |
NPS | National Probation Service |
NS | National Standards |
NSI | Non Statutory Intervention |
NVQ | National Vocational Qualification |
O
OASys | Offender Assessment System |
OBP | Offender Behaviour Programme |
OEP | Offender Engagement Programme |
OFSTED | Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills |
OGP | OASys General Predictor |
OGRS | Offender Group Reconviction Scale |
OLASS | Offender Learning and Skills Service |
OM | Offender Manager |
OMiC | Offender Management in Custody |
OMT | Offender Management Team |
OMU | Offender Management Unit |
ORA | Offender Rehabilitation Act 2014 |
OSA | Office Support Assistant |
OSO | Operational Support Officer |
OVP | OASys Violence Predictor |
P
PAR | Parole Assessment Report |
PC | Probation Circular |
PCC | Police and Crime Commissioner |
PDL | Professional Development and Learning (staff training) |
PDO | Potentially Dangerous Offender |
PDO | Practice Development Officer |
PDU | Probation Delivery Unit |
PED | Parole Eligibility Date |
PFI | Private Finance Initiative |
PHD | Promoting Human Dignity |
PI | Probation Instruction |
PID | Project Initiation Document |
PIMS | Probation Information Management System |
PIPE | Psychologically Informed Planned Environments |
PLC | Probation Liaison Committee |
PMS | Protective Marking Scheme |
PNC | Police National Computer |
PO | Probation Officer |
POM | Prison Offender Manager |
POP | Prolific Offenders Project |
PPCS | Public Protection Casework Section |
PPDU | Probation Programmes & Development Unit |
PPG | Public Protection Group |
PPO | Prolific and Other Priority Offenders |
PPT | Probation Programmes Team |
PPU | Public Protection Unit |
PPWS | Pre Placement Work Session |
PRP | Probation Reform Programme |
PQA | Performance and Quality Analyst |
PQF | Probation Qualification Framework (no longer used – see PQIP) |
PQIP | Professional Qualification in Probation |
PR | Public Relations |
PSAI | Post Sentence Assessment Interview |
PSCO | Probation Service Court Officer |
PSO | Probation Service Officer |
PSR | Pre Sentence Report |
PTA | Practice Tutor Assessor |
Q
QA | Quality Assurance |
QAG | Quality Assurance Group |
R
R4E | Recognised for Excellence |
RA | Recall Activated |
RAR | Rehabilitation Activity Requirement |
RAS | Remote Access Solution |
RIC | Remanded in Custody |
RJ | Restorative Justice |
RJF | Restorative Justice Facilitator |
ROH | Risk of Harm |
ROTL | Release On Temporary Licence |
RSO | Risk Support Officer/ Residential Support Officer |
RSR Tool | Risk of Serious Recidivism |
S
SAB | Safeguarding Adult Board |
SAC | Senior Attendance Centre |
SAFE | Specified Activity for Female Empowerment (women-only) |
SAO | Senior Administrative Officer |
SAP | Systems Applications Products (HR/Payroll and Finance system) |
SAR | Specified Activity Requirement |
SARA | Spousal Assault Risk Assessment |
SC | Sentencing Council (successor to Sentencing Guidelines Council (SGC)) |
SCR | Serious Case Review |
SDB | Service Delivery Board |
SDO | Service Delivery Office |
SDR | Standard Delivery Report (PSR) |
SED | Sentence Expiry Date |
SEEDS | Skills for Effective Engagement, Development and Supervision |
SFO | Serious Further Offence |
SGO | Serious Group Offending |
SGOP | Serious Group Offending Programme |
Skills for Life | Responsible for developing National Occupational Standards for the Criminal Justice Sector and developing qualification frameworks including NVQ’s |
SLA | Service Level Agreement |
SLT | Senior Leadership Team |
SMART | Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Time-limited |
SMB | Strategic Management Board (MAPPA) |
SMT | Senior Management Team |
SOR | Sex Offenders Register |
SOSAR | Sexual Offending Specified Activity Requirement |
SPDR | Staff Performance and Development Report |
SPO | Senior Probation Officer |
SPOC | Single Point of Contact |
SSAM | Structured Supervision Anger Management |
SSO | Suspended Sentence Order |
SSP | Statutory Sick Pay |
SSP | Structured Supervision Programme |
SSR | Specific Sentence Report |
SSR | Structured Supervision Requirement |
SSSO | Suspended Sentence Supervision Order |
SSW | Structured Supervision for Women |
STEPS | Standard Technical Environment for the Probation Service |
T
TACT | Terrorism Act Offence |
TOM | Target Operating Model |
TOPs | Targeted Offenders Programme |
TPim | Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures |
TR | Transforming Rehabilitation |
TSP | Thinking Skills Programme |
TTG | Through the Gate |
TUPE | Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations |
U
UNISON | The Public Service Union |
UPW | Unpaid Work |
V
VAWG | Violence Against Women and Girls |
VCS | Voluntary Community Sector |
Victim Awareness | Encourages the offender to consider their actions and the effect on their victim |
ViSOR | Violent and Sex Offender Register (Police system) |
VLO | Victim Liaison Officer |
VLS | Victim Liaison Service |
VSU | Victims Services Unit |
W
WAC | Women’s Acquisitive Crime (Programme) |
WCN | World Careers Network Ltd |
WISER | Women-only sentencing option |
WMT | Workload Management Tool |
WNB | Warrant Issued No Bail |
WP | Women’s Programme |
WW | What Works |
Y
YJB | Youth Justice Board |
YOI | Youth Offender Institution (for those under 21) |
YOS | Youth Offending Service |
YOT | Youth Offending Team |
YTD | Year to Date |