§ Mr. Rentonasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will ensure that, when the after-cafe functions of discharged prisoners' aid societies are transferred to the probation and after-care service as recommended by the Advisory Council on the Treatment of Offenders, the officers employed by the societies will be appointed to that service.
§ Miss PikeEach prisoners' aid society will remain responsible for voluntary after-care in its area until the local probation and after-care service is able to take over the work. When that happens in any area, I am sure that the local probation and after-care committee will be glad to consider the society's 221W officers for appointment to its service, as was recommended by the Advisory Council. The Home Office training facilities will be available for these officers, as they are for other entrants to the probation service.