Community Order: Unpaid Work Requirement

•  It is a punishment ordered by the Court to be served by an offender in the community.
• It means an offender must do unpaid work which will help the community.
• A Community Order with Unpaid Work Requirement states how many hours must be worked.A Court can order at least 40 hours and up to a maximum 300 hours.
• Probation enforces the Order. If an offender does not comply with their Order or the Requirement, we act to return him or her to the Court which decides further action.
• We plan and arrange work for offenders to do. We try to make sure that there is a range of community service work availble to meet the abilities and skills of all offenders. We undertake assessments of the risk factors of every offender and of each workplace before an offender is placed to start the compulsoryUnpaid Work.
• The aim of  Unpaid Work as  a  community punishment is to provide opportunity for offenders to make reparation to the community. With the aim to reduce re-offending, we look to arrange work placements which can enable offenders to learn work skills, so as to improve their employability and guide them away from crime.

In Lancashire each year we supervise about 1,500 offenders doing Unpaid Work under a Community Order. A total of 125,000 hours of unpaid work by offenders helped communities across Lancashire last year.