Central Council of Probation and After-Care Committees

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The Central Council of Probation and After-Care Committees was the body which co-ordinated probation services (which were generally organised on a county basis) in England and Wales and acted as their central representative to the UK Government.[https://www.ncjrs.gov/App/Publications/abstract.aspx?ID=90060 Abstract of Annual Report, 1982–83] It was one of the founder members of the Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work in 1971.{{cite news |last1=Jones |first1=David |title=Regulation of Social Work and Social Workers in the United Kingdom|url=https://www.basw.co.uk/system/files/resources/Social%20Work%20Regulation%20-%20Contexts%20and%20Questions.pdf |accessdate=5 December 2018 |publisher=BASW |date=January 2018}}

In 1978 it produced briefing papers for local Probation and After-Care Committees on the Royal Commission on Criminal Procedure (Philips Commission), and the diminished use of probation orders.{{cite news |title=Minutes of the Gloucestershire Probation and After Care Committee, 3 December 1973- 24 August 1979 |url=http://ww3.gloucestershire.gov.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=GCC%2F2%2F2%2F4%2F4 |accessdate=5 December 2018 |publisher=Gloucestershire Archives |date=1979}}

In the 1981 Birthday Honours John Patrick Marland, Chairman of the Council was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.{{cite news |title=Supplement |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/48639/supplement/8/data.pdf |accessdate=5 December 2018 |publisher=London Gazette |date=13 June 1981}}

It was succeeded by the Probation Boards Association.{{cite book |last1=Gelsthorpe |first1=Loraine |last2=Morgan |first2=Rod |title=Handbook of Probation |date=2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781134014910 |pages=52 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3AMQ3EJB8SoC&dq=Central+Council+of+Probation+and+After-Care+Committees |accessdate=5 December 2018}}

Its records are held in the Home Office archives.{{cite web |title=The National Archives |url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C3354717 |website=National archives |accessdate=5 December 2018}}