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A ‘requirement’ is something, which you must do as part of your Order, which may be:
Here is a list of the requirements, which can be attached to your Community Order or Suspended Sentence Order in the Durham and Tees Valley area:
A Supervision Requirement means you must meet regularly with your Offender Manager. They will work with you to identify the things in your life that cause you to get into trouble and then encourage and assist you to solve these problems.
As part of your Supervision Requirement you will work with your Offender Manager to complete something called the Citizenship Programme. This is a structured programme of work, which is made up of the following seven sets of work, called ‘modules’. You may not need to complete all of the modules, but your Offender Manager will decide which pieces of work you need to complete to help you to avoid offending again in the future:
This is a piece of work that must be completed if you have a Supervision Requirement. It will help you to look more carefully at your behaviour, why you offend and the work you need to do to help you to stop offending.
This piece of work will help you to understand how your thoughts and feelings have affected your behaviour in a negative way and caused you to become involved in offending. It will also help you to learn skills to stop this happening again.
If drinking alcohol has been getting you into trouble, then this piece of work will help you to learn about the negative effects of alcohol use on your thinking and your behaviour. It will also help you to reduce how much alcohol you drink.
If using drugs has been getting you into trouble, then this piece of work will help you to learn more about the dangers of using drugs and to understand how it will lead you into trouble. It will also help you to reduce your use of drugs.
The relationships that you have with your partner, family members and close friends will have a big impact on your life. As good relationships will help you to live a happy and stable life but bad relationships can lead you into trouble, this piece of work will support you to sort out the problems, which you may have in your relationships with people close to you.
This piece of work will help you to understand what parts of your lifestyle and routine are getting you into trouble and support you to improve the way that you use your time. Also, you will learn that spending time with people who often get into trouble is likely to cause you many problems and you will explore how to stop this from happening.
This is a piece of work which must be completed if you have a Supervision Requirement, after you have finished the Induction Module and all of the other modules which your Offender Manager has asked you to do. Along with your Offender Manager, you will record what you have achieved by finishing the other pieces of work and you will plan how you can continue to build a better life for yourself in the future.
After you have finished working on the Citizenship Programme, you will either continue to work with your Offender Manager until the end of your Community Order or you may be able to start working with the ‘Community Supervision Service’, which is also delivered by Durham Tees Valley Probation Trust. This will be the decision of your Offender Manager, who will discuss it with you at the appropriate time.
The Community Supervision Service will focus on helping you to improve your life and to increase your links with services and agencies in the local community.
Supervision and the Citizenship Programme Leaflet
There are three different ‘activities’, which the Court may tell you to do as part of your Community Order. You may need to work with local services and agencies to complete these activities, but your Offender Manager will always pay close attention to the progress that you are making.
Specified Activity Requirement
Alcohol Specified Activity Requirement:To complete this activity you must go to 9 sessions of work with a local service or agency that specialises in solving alcohol related problems, followed by 1 final session to discuss the progress which you have made20Offender Manager, who 0attended by your Offender Manager.
You will need to take part in written work and discussion which will help you to understand the negative effects of alcohol on your life and your behaviour. You will also receive support to reduce how much alcohol you drink.
Some sessions will involve just you and a member of staff, whilst others will be delievered in a group setting.
The Court will decide how many sessions of this activity that you must attend. You will complete the sessions by working with a person from an agency that specialises in education, training and employment. During these sessions, you will be given help, which you must accept, to find a job or to improve your skills. This might involve helping you:
Education, Training and Employment Requirement
The Court may tell you to complete this activity after you have been returned to Court for failing to comply with your Community Order. To complete it successfully, you will work with your Offender Manager to complete 3 sessions of written work and discussion that will identify the reasons why you have failed to comply with your Community Order and support you to make sure that it does not happen again.
This requirement is only available for people who live in the Teesside area and are under 25 years of age.
The Court will have decided how many hours that you need to spend at the Attendance Centre in total, but you will not have to attend for more than three hours a day. This does not include the time, which it takes to get to and from the Attendance Centre.
When you are at the Attendance Centre, you will work with a group of other people to do positive activities and training courses that will help you to make better use of your time and to help you to build a better future.
Having a Curfew Requirement means that the Court have decided that you must stay inside a certain address, for up to 12 hours a day, for up to 7 days a week. To make sure that you do this, you will be electronically monitored. This means that special equipment will be fitted in the address and a tag will be fitted to your body (usually your ankle), which will let the electronic monitoring company (G4S) know if you are outside of the address when you are not supposed to be.
You may be given this requirement if the Court feels that you have a problem with drugs, which is causing you to get into trouble. You will be given treatment, support and counselling by a local service or agency that specialises in solving drug problems to help you to reduce and stop your drug use. You will be drug tested regularly to check how well you are doing and your progress is likely to be shared with the Court during regular review meetings.
Drug Rehabilitation Requirement
This means that you will not be allowed to go to a particular place for the length of the requirement. This may be a certain street, house, part of a town or place of interest (such as a football stadium or shopping centre).
You may be given this requirement if the Court feels that you have some problems with your mental health, which are causing you to get into trouble. To try to solve these problems, a medical or mental health professional will give support, counselling and sometimes treatment.
Mental Health Treatment Requirement
Prohibited Activity RequirementThis requirement means that the Court has instructed you to stop doing something, which has been getting you into trouble. For example, if you have been causing trouble at football matches, then the Court may have decided that you must stop going to them for the length of your requirement.
Prohibited Activity Requirement
This requirement means that you will have to complete a programme that will help you to stop getting into trouble, by helping you how to think or behave differently.
There are 5 different kinds of programme and here is a brief overview of what they involve. For more information about them, you can look at the attached leaflets.
This is a group programme for men who have been violent on at least one occasion towards their wife or partner. It will help you to stop behaving in the same way again by teaching you about the consequences of violence in your family home, helping you to understand why you have behaved in this way. It will also increase your ability to cope with difficult situations and disagreements in a good way.
Community Domestic Violence Programme
This is a group programme, which can help you to avoid getting into conflict situations, by teaching you how to control your emotions, your temper and your anger. It will also help you to learn how to deal with difficult situations and disagreements in a good way.
Controlling Anger and Learning to Manage It
This is a group programme for men who have committed a sexual offence. It will help you to understand how your thoughts, attitudes and feelings have been linked to your offending and using this information, it will teach you about self-control, to help you to avoid committing another sexual offence.
Northumbria Sex Offender Groupwork Programme
This is a group programme from men who have committed a sexual offence, which involved the internet. It will help you to work out why you have committed such an offence and teach you skills to help you to avoid it happening it again.
Internet Sex Offender Groupwork Programme
This is a group programme which will help you to keep out of trouble through work that aims to make your thinking skills much better. It will make you more able to solve problems in your life, to make good decisions and to handle difficult situations in a good way.
If you have a Residence Requirement then this means that you must live in a particular place for as long as the requirement lasts. This might be your own home; someone else’s home or it may be a probation hostel, called an Approved Premises.
You will not be allowed to stay overnight at any other address unless your Offender Manager gives you permission to do so.
This requirement is referred to as Community Payback or Community Service.
Having an Unpaid Work Requirement means that the Court have decided that you must do at least 6 hours of work each week that will be demanding and will benefit the local community. It will also help you to learn new skills, which may help you to find a job in the future.
There are different types of work that you may be asked to do, such as working in a charity shop or cleaning up parks and play areas.
You may be given this requirement if the Court feels that you have a problem with alcohol, which is causing you to get into trouble. You will be given support, counselling and sometimes treatment by a local service or agency that specialises in solving alcohol problems to help you to reduce how much alcohol you drink.
