Skip to content
Back

CEP Awards

CEP Awards 2025

Apply now for the CEP Awards or scroll down to see winners from the previous editions!

CEP awards 2025 application

In 2016 the Confederation of European Probation established a Probation Awards Scheme to celebrate outstanding contributions to Probation. Awards would be presented at each General Assembly – the first edition took place at the General Assembly in Bucharest in October 2016.


CEP Awards 2022

See who has won

CEP Awards 2022

During the General Assembly and CEP Conference on Human Rights and Ethics in Dubrovnik, CEP presented the five CEP Awards to its winners

See our 2022 winners

CEP Awards 2019

See who has won

CEP Awards 2019

During the General Assembly and CEP Conference on Human Rights and Ethics in Dubrovnik, CEP presented the five CEP Awards to its winners

See our 2019 winners

CEP Awards 2016

See who has won

CEP Awards 2016

During the General Assembly and CEP Conference on Human Rights and Ethics in Dubrovnik, CEP presented the five CEP Awards to its winners

See our 2016 winners

Objectives

The awards scheme reflects CEP’s vision: To contribute to safer communities by rehabilitating and reintegrating offenders and providing the best possible interventions to reduce re-offending and the impact of crime.
The Award Scheme aims to:

  • Celebrate and recognise outstanding achievement in a range of probation settings
  • Promote professionalism and excellence
  • Foster good practice through dissemination of information about award winners
  • Improve awareness of probation and stimulate publicity
  • Encourage leadership and partnership
  • Promote research and the sharing of professional knowledge
  • Promote CEP values, and a commitment to diversity and human rights

Categories

The CEP awards distinguish the following five categories:

  1. Rehabilitation in the community – an award for work which is effective in rehabilitating probation clients and reducing reoffending.
  2. The Sue Hall Award (Social inclusion) – an award for work which has made a significant contribution to integrating probation clients into the community.
  3. Public protection – an award for making a significant contribution to reducing risk of harm to potential victims.
  4. Development of National Probation Services – an award for the development of national services.
  5. Research – an award for research published in the last 5 years which has had a major impact on probation practice.

Subscribe to our bi-monthly email newsletter!

  • Keep up to date with important probation developments and insights.