{"id":77349,"date":"2016-12-16T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T10:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=a144ac19e24c2a59e7419d2c2d7d7692"},"modified":"2016-12-16T10:00:02","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T10:00:02","slug":"news-story-extension-of-tenure-for-the-current-prisons-and-probation-ombudsman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=77349","title":{"rendered":"News story: Extension of tenure for the current Prisons and Probation Ombudsman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The post of Prisons and Probation Ombudsman was established in 1994 in response to a recommendation of the Woolf Inquiry into riots at Strangeways and other Prisons.<\/p>\n<p>The Ombudsman provides independent adjudication of complaints from prisoners, offenders under probation supervision and immigration detainees and also investigates deaths, due to any cause, in detention and approved premises.<\/p>\n<p>The Secretary of State for Justice has agreed to an extension of tenure for the current Ombudsman, Nigel Newcomen, until 31 July 2017.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Secretary of State for Justice has extended the tenure of Nigel Newcomen, the current Prisons and Probation Ombudsman until 31 July 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}