Community Responsibility Orders

This is a court order which requires a young person to attend a Community Services project for a period of 20-40 hours. The hours of attendance will be completed over a number of months through planned sessions of between 2 and 4 hours at a time – these sessions will not interfere with school or work. Each session will be used to help the young person:

• understand their responsibility to the local community;
• understand the impact of the offence on themselves and others;
• understand the reasons for their involvement in the offence;
• look at ways to prevent re-offending;

·look at other areas of need which will improve the situation;

• where appropriate, undertake practical activities to make amends.