Offenders contribute more than £1.7m via unpaid work schemes
Date published: 03 November 2018
Offenders sentenced to Community Payback
Offenders sentenced to Community Payback have clocked up 220,765 hours in good work for the region’s communities since January.
The Cheshire & Greater Manchester Community Rehabilitation Company (CGM CRC) is responsible for supervising people sentenced by the courts to carry out unpaid work orders. CGM CRC ensures Community Payback is completed in a timely fashion and makes sure offenders comply with their sentence.
Magistrates or judges can sentence offenders to carry out anything from 40 to 300 hours of unpaid work as part of their order. Community Payback must include a minimum of a day’s work – lasting at least seven hours – once a week.
All projects combine hard work and the chance for the participant to develop skills. It is also a punishment as the individual is giving up their time to carry out the initiatives.
With the national wage standing at £7.83 that equates to £1.73m pounds of work delivered.
Chris Edwards, CGM CRC’s chief executive, said: “Community Payback provides a tough, effective and visible punishment requiring people to undertake challenging work while giving something back to communities where they live.
“It also provides an opportunity for people to turn their experience into a positive one by picking up new skills that can help them towards paid employment and leading more stable, positive and crime-free lives.”
Community sentences can be given for crimes including damaging property, benefit fraud and assault. They are often handed out by judges and magistrates when the offender is appearing at court when it is thought such a sentence may be more likely to stop an offender committing crimes than a prison sentence.
People can also be sentenced to intensive Community Payback orders, which mean they must complete 28 hours of work every week.
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