Community Payback Annual Report 2011
01/02/2012
Offenders worked 316,000 hours on Community Payback projects last year, worth nearly £2million in free labour to communities in Surrey and Sussex.
Community Payback is work carried out by offenders as part of their sentence and enables them to give something back for the crimes they have committed.
The projects range from single placements with small voluntary organisations to large groups undertaking conservation work and to clearing up eyesores in town centres.
Surrey & Sussex Probation Trust today publishes its Community Payback annual report, which outlines the kind of projects undertaken and the number of hours worked by offenders in 2011. The report also looks at a number of case studies which highlight particular projects carried out in Surrey and Sussex in 2011.
They include renovating facilities for people with learning difficulties and mental health problems in Brighton, revamping a community centre in Hastings, restoring an historic Napoleonic Fort in Shoreham and working in partnership with Reigate and Banstead Council to clean public areas.
Nick Smart, acting chief executive of Surrey & Sussex Probation Trust said: "The Community Payback team has continued to deliver high quality sentences for our courts that are challenging for offenders whilst providing tangible benefits for our communities. We welcome and encourage nominations from members of the public via our website.
"The process to tender Community Payback across the country has begun and we are committed to working with partners to continue to be a provider of Community Payback in Surrey and Sussex."
For more information on Community Payback or to nominate a project visit our Community Payback pages.
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Notes for editors:
In 2011 Government announced a competition for the delivery of Community Payback in six geographical lots. Surrey and Sussex is part of Lot 6 which also includes Kent, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Northamptonshire, Cambridge and Bedfordshire.
In this process, probation trusts must decide on the bid they are going to be part of and support. They are entitled to join any bids made by the private sector providers or probation trusts who have passed the first stage of the competition.
Surrey & Sussex Probation Trust is entering into a joint bid with Kent Probation Trust and SERCO to deliver Community Payback services in the Lot 6 area.
