Community Payback scheme

Jannine Clark - February 2011
jannine.clark@kirklees.gov.uk

About the Community Payback Scheme

The Community Payback Scheme is a tough, visible punishment for offenders within communities.

The scheme is part of West Yorkshire Probation, which looks after people who have been sentenced to unpaid work orders through the courts. Probation provide transport to and from the sites, supervision and refreshments.

How work is allocated and monitored

Residents are asked what they would like to see done to improve the areas they live in. All the information is collated and the most suitable suggestions passed to Community Payback who, upon completion of the work, check to ensure it has been done to a suitable standard.

Examples of Community Payback work

  • Vegetation cut back in overgrown communal spaces, litter picked, and flytipped rubbish removed in the Hazels area of Chickenley.
  • Gardening in the School Lane area of Dewsbury Moor and parts of Thornhill.
  • Cleaning up and gardening at a playground in the Lower Hopton area of Mirfield.
  • Painting the outside and main hall of Chickenley Community Centre.
  • Paths at St. Mary's Church in Mirfield repaired and widened and litter cleared up.
  • More than 400 hours cleaning up Wilton Park in Batley.
  • Leaflet deliveries in Dewsbury Moor
  • Painting Mirfield's Salvation Army building
  • Tidying Dewsbury Cemetery, with all the work being well received.
  • Flytipped rubbish removed from Ravensthorpe Nature Reserve.

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