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A requirement is something which you must do as part of your order. It might be:
The number and type of requirements added to your order will depend on your offending behaviour and the problems in your life that cause you to get into trouble.
In the Durham Tees Valley Area the court can choose from the following requirements:
This means you must meet regularly with your probation officer or probation service officer. 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 probation officer or probation service officer to complete the Citizenship Programme. This is a programme made up of 7 sets of work called modules. Your probation officer or probation service officer will decide which modulesk you need to complete to help you to avoid offending again in the future:
This 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.When you have finished the Citizenship Programme, you will either continue to work with your probation officer or probation service officer until the end of your Order, or you might be able to start working with the Community Supervision Service. This will be the decision of your probation officer or probation service officer who will discuss it with you.
The Community Supervision Service is part of Durham Tees Valley Probation Trust. They will focus on helping you to improve your life and to increase your links with services and agencies in your community.
Supervision and the Citizenship Programme Leaflet
There are three different activities that the court might tell you to do as part of your community order. You might need to work with local services and agencies to carry out these activities, but your probation officer or probation service officer will always pay close attention to the progress that you are making.
Specified Activity Requirement
Alcohol Specified Activity RequirementTo complete this activity you must go to 9 sessions of work with a local service or agency that specialises in solving alcohol related problems. The final tenth session will include your probation officer or probation service officer and you will discuss the progress you have made.
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 get support to reduce how much alcohol you drink.
Some sessions will involve just you and a member of staff. Other 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
Breach Re-Engagement Module
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.
Attendance Centre Requirement
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.
Curfew Requirement
Having a Curfew Requirement means that the Court have decided that you must stay inside a certain address, for up to 16 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.
Drug Rehabilitation Requirement
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
Exclusion 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).
Mental Health Requirement
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 Requirement
This 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
Requirement to complete an Offending Behaviour Programme
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.
Community Domestic Violence Programme (CDVP)
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
Controlling Anger and Learning to Manage It (CALM)
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
Northumbria Sex Offender Groupwork Programme (NSOG)
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
Internet Sex Offender Treatment Programme (I-SOTP)
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
Thinking Skills Programme (TSP)
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.
Residence Requirement
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.
Unpaid Work Requirement
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.
Alcohol Treatment Requirement
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.
