Ministry of Justice

Promoting equality in prisons and probation: the NOMS single equality scheme 2009-12

Date: 29 April 2009

NOMS logo

The National Offender Management Service's single equality scheme, setting out how the agency will meet its equality duties and deliver fair prison and probation services to all.


The scheme focuses on race, disability and gender equality and sets out the approach to equality in prisons and probation areas.

NOMS is an executive agency of the Ministry of Justice, responsible for commissioning and delivering adult offender management services in custody and in the community in England and Wales.