Simon Power MP
National Party Justice & Corrections Spokesman
4 November 2007
Corrections head office staff continue to leave
Staff at Corrections’ head office continue to leave at a worrying rate, says National’s Justice & Corrections spokesman, Simon Power.
“This is a symptom of a department in turmoil and it seems to be getting worse.”
He is releasing figures that show there was a turnover of 24.5% of head office staff in 2006/07, compared with just 21%
the previous year.
“What is more surprising is that turnover at head office is far outstripping the turnover of front-line staff – the
people who are face-to-face with prisoners every day.
“In the past year, only 9.7% of those front-line staff left.
“And the situation at head office is likely to get worse, with Corrections signalling in its 2006/07 Financial Review
that the much-vaunted review of head office ‘may, in the short term, adversely affect turnover.’ "
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Attachment: answer to question from 2006/07 Financial Review