Community Payback in South Lanarkshire

A Community Payback order is served by a Court as an alternative to a custodial sentence. People who have committed offences can undertake supervised work within their community to repay for the harm they have caused. This film shows how this works in South Lanarkshire. During 2016 there were 901 Community Payback Orders with unpaid work requirement imposed by the court. The total number of hours delivered were 111,438 hours. In the month of March 2017 there were 560 orders (which could be used as an approximate figure.) On average 10 new orders per week.