10-May-2008
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Unpaid Work

Every year across the country local communities benefit from over 5 million hours of compulsory unpaid work.  Tasks carried out by offenders on these orders can include:

  • Litter clearance
  • Grafitti cleaning
  • Repairs and redecoration of community centres
  • Environmental work such as clearing areas of waste land.
In the year ended April 2006 Nottinghamshire Probation Area target of 1142 unpaid work completions was exceeded by 22%, amounting to 1396 completions, contributing approximately 140,000 hours of unpaid work in the community.

It’s your community - now you decide!
The Community Payback Scheme was launched nationally in November 2005 and encourages local communities - faith groups, businesses, voluntary groups and local authorities to nominate projects they would like to see the Probation Service get involved with.  Once the work is completed it is branded with the Community Payback logo to show where offenders have positively contributed to improving the neighbourhood.

Find out more about some of the recent projects going on in your area

Got an idea for a project?
Then get in touch by:
  • phoning the Unpaid Work office on 0115 9560934
  • contact us via this website, and provide us with some information and your details.

Please remember that any jobs/tasks proposed must:

  • be appropriate to the skills levels of our offenders
  • comply with Health & Safety requirements
  • constitute humane work and not be humiliating/degrading to the offender or
    damaging to the community
  • be the type of work which would NOT normally be undertaken by paid labour
Consultation process launched
 
A draft specification for the delivery of Unpaid Work in the East Midlands has been produced by the Regional Unpaid Work Pathfinder Project - and is now available on the Community Payback website: www.communitypayback.co.uk
 
A consultation event aimed at community and partner organisations, criminal justice agencies and potential bidders, will take place at the University of Leicester on 11 March 2008 - to attend please complete the registration form by following the link above.  The closing date to register interest is 4 February 2008.
 
An online consultation questionnaire, highlighting 14 specific issues relating to the delivery of Unpaid Work is also available online via the Community Payback website.  Closing date for receipt of feedback forms is 18 March 2008.
 
 
 
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