This remains simply the best professional directory of its kind. It maintains its high standards each year because it is produced by a working probation officer who knows what his colleagues need.

The Directory features full details of NOMS and the National Directorate of the Probation Service for England and Wales and all of the individual Probation Areas. Details of the Probation and Welfare Service of the Irish Republic are also included. 

However, it is more than just a list of names and addresses of those in the probation service. It lists Home Office and Prison Service Agency personnel, all UK prisons, probation and bail hostels, services for adult offenders in Scotland, all NACRO addresses, specialist accommodation and other services for offenders, and a comprehensive collection of miscellaneous addresses.

Listings also include Youth Offending Teams, CAFCASS Area Offices, the Scottish Executive Community Justice Services Division, the Prison and Probation Services Psychology Group, all Area Psychologists, the Home Office Mental Health Unit, High Security Hospitals, a section on Services for Victims and many other useful addresses, plus an invaluable Glossary of all the abbreviations commonly used within the Probation Service.