North East

Welcome from Bronwen Elphick
North East Regional Probation Director

“Hello everyone – it’s great to see you are interested in finding out more about the new probation North East region – welcome!

I am Bronwen, and prior to becoming the Regional Probation Director in April 2020, I was the CEO for the Durham Tees Valley Community Rehabilitation Company.  I have worked in the probation service since qualifying as a PO in 1997 (!) and have held a variety of roles, so am pretty familiar with all things ‘probation’.  As for us all though, we are about to go through another huge change, and that will bring new challenges and opportunities for us to shape probation services in the North East.  Whichever side of the Transforming Rehabilitation fence you ended up in, we have pretty much all been going through continued structural change for the past seven years.  It’s a good job probation staff are so blooming good at change! But unification of the service in June, whilst bringing more change, gives us all the same opportunity to think about what excellent service delivery looks like, from the same perspective and starting point – as the service from 26th June will be new to us all.

RPD North East
Bronwen Elphick
Regional Probation Director

I really want the North East region to shine! We have three very strong organisations in our patch, and bucket loads of ideas around innovative, quality practice. I have seen and heard the motivation and commitment from you all first hand in our engagement calls – there is something quite unique about the North East, its geography, its people and its ‘can do / get on with it attitude’ (if an area can have an attitude!), and I see that uniqueness reflected in our staff groups.  The breadth of experience, knowledge and skills we will have from DTV CRC, Northumbria CRC and NPS colleagues will be a North East force to be reckoned with and it is important to me that we use all of that different experience to create something special and make us stand out.  It is going to take us some time and we will need to let the dust settle over the summer, but I am excited about the rest of this year, can’t wait to get everyone together and really hope that you find the information on this Hub useful as a starting point.”

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About our region

Probation Delivery Units (PDU)

25. County Durham and Darlington
26. Gateshead and South Tyneside
27. Stockton and Hartlepool
28. Sunderland
29. Redcar, Cleveland and Middlesbrough
30. Newcastle Upon Tyne
31. North Tyneside and Northumberland

How to get in touch 

*New numbers applicable from 7 June

Durham (Wear House) Reception : +44 (0) 1919 333 788*

Stockton (Wetherby House) Reception: +44 (0) 1919 333 780*

NEPS.GeneralEnquiries@justice.gov.uk

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