Brochure of Probation Interventions – South Central
Foreword
Reducing reoffending remains a top priority for the South-Central Probation Service as we contribute to cutting crime, making communities safer and preventing people from becoming victims.
To achieve this fundamental priority, we must reduce reoffending and address the factors that increase the risk of criminal behaviour. We will ensure consequences for those who fail to comply, whilst improving rehabilitation, resettlement, and supervision of prison leavers in the community.
In the last 12 months, we have carried out a major organisational transformation programme, from which we have delivered significant changes and a new operating model for Probation Service delivery. Part of this has involved expanding our range of services and interventions to address reoffending and the needs of people on probation. For this reason, I am pleased to present this Judicial Brochure exhibiting our offer of rehabilitation services in the South-Central region.
Geoff Davis, Head of Operations South Central Probation Service
I am pleased to support the launch of the Judicial Brochure 2022-23.
In my role as Regional Court and Enforcement Lead, I shall be working closely with Senior Probation Officers and their teams, as well as Heads of Probation Delivery Units, to ensure we provide expert, timely advice to support effective and safe sentencing.
Probation teams are central to supporting justice enabling the court to set the best possible conditions to drive a successful rehabilitative journey whilst ensuring the public are protected.
I will work collaboratively with the courts and am keen to strengthen relationships and engagement in order to achieve the necessary outcomes. I look forward to meeting with sentencers and HMCTS colleagues across the area and will always welcome any feedback.
Alex Hyslop, Strategic Court Lead, South Central Probation Service
Click on the links below to see the full range of probation interventions available within your region.
Accredited Programme Requirement
Delivered by trained facilitators, primarily within a group setting, these programmes are informed by evidence and accredited. They are designed to provide opportunities to change thinking, attitudes and behaviours associated with offending.
Rehabilitation Activity Requirement (RAR)
This requirement allows for precise and effective rehabilitation activity to be tailored following a more in-depth assessment after sentence. These activities can comprise:
Community Sentence Treatment Requirements
The three treatment requirements are: Mental Health Treatment Requirements, Drug Rehabilitation Requirements (which include drug testing) and Alcohol Treatment Requirements. Those being considered must agree to engage in treatment.
Electronic Monitoring
Electronic Monitoring can be both a requirement and a way in which other requirements are enforced. They are designed to monitor an individual’s whereabouts for the purpose of demonstrating compliance with certain requirements. This can involve electronically monitored curfew, exclusion and prohibited activity requirements. The Transdermal tag can monitor alcohol abstinence.
Unpaid work
Individuals undertake unpaid work that must benefit their local community as a way to pay back to the community for their crimes.
The brochure does not cover all available community sentence requirements (for instance, residence requirement, prohibited activity requirement, non-electronically monitored exclusion, foreign travel prohibition requirement), or other sentencing options (fines, discharges and custodial sentences).
For more information about these, please visit the Sentencing Council Website.
If any information in this brochure is incorrect or needs to be updated, please email: EffectiveProbation.Practice@justice.gov.uk.