Community Payback
Community Payback provides the opportunity for local people to have their say on how men and women, who have committed crimes, should make amends for the harm they have caused.
Unpaid Work is one of the 12 requirements in the Community Order, which was introduced in the Criminal Justice Act 2003. Magistrates and Judges can order offenders to undertake a specified number of hours. The hours worked can vary from 40 hours to 300 hours. In the past this sentence has been called Community Service or, more recently, Community Punishment.
Offenders are expected to undertake a minimum of six hours a week and to have completed their ordered hours within 12 months. Completion time can be shorter depending on the number of hours. The Probation Service supervises this work and provides opportunities for offenders to work seven days a week, and some of the individual Probation Areas run their own workshops in the evening.
Those working on the scheme undertake graffiti removal, street clean-ups, ground clearance, recycling projects, building maintenance and landscaping and painting and decorating in community centres and meeting places.
They also do improvements to park and community facilities, environmental preservation programmes and general gardening projects.
The scheme also provides the opportunity for local people to have their say on how men and women, who have committed crimes, should make amends for the harm they have caused.
All projects are workers are rigorously supervised.
You can nominate a project via your local Councillor, your Neighbourhood Action Team, through the Stevenage Borough Council customer service centre, or through your local Ward Police Constable or PCSO.